that
from 1625 thru 1659 between 50,000
and 100,000 Irish men, women and children were
shipped to Barbados Montserrat, Jamaica and
Antigua as slaves. Another 20,000 plus Irish
slaves were sold to English settlers in the American
colonies .
The Irish slave trade began when
James II of England sold 30,000
Irish prisoners as slaves to the New
World. His Proclamation of
1625 required Irish political
prisoners be sent overseas and sold
to English settlers in the West
Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish
were the main slaves sold to Antigua
and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of
the total population of Montserrat
were Irish slaves.
Ireland quickly became the biggest
source of human livestock for
English merchants. The majority of
the early slaves to the New World
were predominantly Irish.
that more than 7 million Irish
immigrants have come to America since the 1600s.
This mass migration transformed Irish society
and played a significant role in shaping American
politics, religion, culture, and economics during
the country's most formative years. More than 40
million people in the United States claim some
degree of Irish ancestry.
Ireland’s population
decreased dramatically throughout the nineteenth century. Census
figures show an Irish population of 8.2 million in 1841, 6.6 million
a decade later, and only 4.7 million in 1891.
It is estimated that
as many as 4.5 million Irish arrived in America between 1820 and
1930.
Between 1820 and
1860, the Irish constituted over one third of all immigrants to the
United States. In the 1840s, they comprised nearly half of all
immigrants to this nation.
that
the preamble to the Irish constitution
reads as follows:
In the Name of the Most Holy Trinity, from
Whom is all authority and to Whom, as our final end, all
actions both of men and States must be referred,
We, the people of Éire,
Humbly acknowledging all our obligations to
our Divine Lord, Jesus Christ, Who sustained our fathers
through centuries of trial,
Gratefully remembering their heroic and
unremitting struggle to regain the rightful independence of
our Nation,
And seeking to promote the common good, with
due observance of Prudence, Justice and Charity, so that the
dignity and freedom of the individual may be assured, true
social order attained, the unity of our country restored,
and concord established with other nations,
Do hereby adopt, enact, and give to
ourselves this Constitution.
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