Where is an apology for Caribbean’s Irish slaves?

I read with interest John O’Connell’s letter (Jan 27) on an apology for slavery.

What a lot of Irish people do not know is that at least 60,000 Irish were sent as slaves to the Caribbean by Cromwell, and later King James 1, to Barbados, Monserrat, Virginia, etc, to slave in the sugar plantations.

It was an early attempt at ethnic cleansing. The Irish were treated with the utmost barbarity, hung, drawn and quartered at the whim of slave owners. Black slaves were more valuable, as they had to be paid for.