The Irish-in-Barbados story is complex. A British colony from 1625 until 1966, the island was a hub of the lucrative global sugar and rum trades, ...

I recently had my knuckles rapped for a sentence about migration on the Irish Ancestors site (goo.gl/3ECtya): "In the seventeenth century, in the aftermath of the Cromwellian wars, substantial ...

Road tennis is an indigenous sport to this Caribbean country, played in communities across the island by people of all ages ...

Now Barbados will be a proud Republic, albeit with only 300,000 people, but like the United States, India, and the Irish Republic, it can take its place among the countries of the world. Given its ...

Sandy Lane, which is mainly Irish owned, has three golf courses including the Country Club course which hosted the 2006 World Cup of Golf event. Tiger Woods also held his wedding reception there ...

Damo Scores With Barbados <p>When I last spoke with Damien Dempsey earlier this year, he recalled a recent chance encounter with Shane MacGowan at a Heathrow Airport bar.

A Barbados sunset, as seen from the Abidah by Accra Hotel in Christ Church (Image: Reach plc). Take the train to Cherry Tree Hill, some 750ft above sea level, for breathtaking views before a ...

IRISH doctors have entered into an agreement with authorities in Barbados to provide fertility treatment for Irish women on the beautiful Caribbean island. It is suggested that the 'reduced stress ...

Testimony of an Irish Slave Girl. Kate McCafferty. Viking. $24.95. 206 pp. Cot Daley was just 13 when she was captured, stowed below decks in the filth and darkness of a slave ship, transported acr… ...

WHEN you heard the lilting voice of Monsignor Harcourt Blackett singing the above lines last week in Millmount Museum, you may have been forgiven for thinking he had taken a wrong turn.

Cot Daley was just 13 when she was captured, stowed below decks in the filth and darkness of a slave ship, transported across the Atlantic to Barbados and sold on the block to the master of a sugar… ...