Immigration Ireland

Thomas Awishee/ Osiat was born in the late seventeenth century, most likely in the Cape Coast, in what is present day Ghana. According to William Smith, surveyor for the Royal African Company in 1726, he was brought to Ireland as a child,…

In 1784, at the age of twenty-five, a man named Sake Dean Mahomet sailed into Cork harbour with his patron, Godfrey Evans Baker. He left behind his life in India, (including fifteen years of service in the East India Company), and…

Crow Street Theatre, Dublin, in March 1750. The playbill tells of a benefit concert organized "at the particular desire of persons of quality". The whole house is to be illuminated with wax lights, and the performance followed by a grand…