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To 'Hell or Barbados'

Drogheda-Independent.ie: "IN May of this year, a Catholic priest from the island of Barbados is coming to Drogheda with a contingent of people from the aforementioned island and who are of Irish extraction.

The priest's name is one Reverend Father Harcourt Blackett, parish priest of St Patrick's Church in Bridgetown, Barbados, and his reason for coming to the Boyneside is to commemorate the huge number of men, women and children who were transported to that island after the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in 1649."..............................

Today, there are about 400 individuals living in the north east corner of Barbados known as the 'Red Legs', due to their ancestors having arrived there as slaves in the mid 17th century; many were wearing kilts and so their legs were horribly burned due to the sun, the stalks of working in the sugar cane fields and by being constantly whipped.

These people don't mix with anyone else on the island, have a very low literacy rate and many suffer from mental problems. They are tall, fair and blond haired, freckled skin and blue eyes and with names such as Lynch, O'Donaghue, etc. The forthcoming visit of Father Blackett should prove very interesting indeed.

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I hate to look at the Barbados tourists site that give the history of Barbados.The ones that talk of Columbus discovering these islands and the other foolish tales that the Bob Marley and Burning Spear called 'mis-education'.I agree with them as a matter of fact Burning Spear referred to Christopher Columbus as a 'damn blasted liar'.Thank god for Rastafari. One of the funniest stories is the one of the bearded fig tree and the name Los Barbados which was supposed to mean 'the bearded one'. In the words of Gary Cole from the book reflections; The Colonization of Barbados is one of the darkest events and evil stories of modern history.Four centuries ago,Spanish and Portuguese slavers started to kidnap,kill and drive out the thousands of peaceful Indians found on the island the Indians called Ichirouganaim.The exact location of the island was a carefully kept secret but Spanish and Portuguese soldiers and sailors knew the island as the barbarous island,"Los B