The Tropical St. Patrick’s Day That Honors African History

Montserrat treats the holiday as both a national celebration and a more somber milestone: a commemoration of a failed slave ...
Irish Central

How Montserrat’s slave rebellion and St. Patrick’s Day are celebrated together

While St. Patrick's Day was once a one-day only event in Montserrat, the celebration of all things Irish has now spanned to an all-encompassing week-long affair. Indeed, it is the only country in the ...
Times Caribbean Online

DR. JOHN A. OSBORNE BESTOWED ORDER OF NATIONAL HERO — MONTSERRAT HONOURS A GIANT OF RESILIENCE, VISION AND PRIDE

NATIONAL AWARDS 2026 DR. JOHN A. OSBORNE BESTOWED ORDER OF NATIONAL HERO — MONTSERRAT HONOURS A GIANT OF RESILIENCE, VISION ...
Business Insider

On St. Patrick's Day in 1768, enslaved people in the Caribbean planned an uprising hoping their Irish overseers would be too drunk to interfere

Montserrat is the only place outside of Ireland and two provinces in Canada where St. Patrick's Day is a public holiday. On St. Patrick's Day in 1768, enslaved Africans on the island attempted a ...