Hector on his Caribbean show: 'The Irish were the biggest slave drivers in Montserrat'
Hector Ó hEochagáin and a carnival particpant in Jamaica, as part of the Hector Caribbean series on TG4.
It seems like Hector Ó hEochagáin gets some of the best gigs in Christendom — traipsing around the globe filming travel shows. For his latest adventure, he visits the Caribbean’s necklace of enchanting islands, including Cuba, Jamaica, and the Dominican Republic.
“We all have this preconception about the Caribbean,” says Hector. “When I tell people I'm away in the Caribbean, they say, ‘you lucky duck’, but maybe when they'll see the series, they'll go, ‘Wow. What a really interesting series.’ It's a unique part of the world with an awful lot of questions to be answered. We've got some good twists and turns like that the Irish were the biggest slave drivers in Montserrat; we were branding the black slaves — ‘you’re a Sweeney now’.”
