The Tide Between Us: An Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation (The O'Neill Trilogy Book 1)

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The Tide between Us is in two halves. The first half starts in 1820 when a 10-year-old Irish orphan is shipped off to Jamaica with many others as indentured labourers. I knew nothing of this practice and found this part of the book fascinating as we trace the life of Art O’Neil on a plantation and learn how life could be for some indentured labourers. Olive Collins has obviously researched this thoroughly and it was interesting.

In 1614 Claude d'Abbeville published the work " Histoire de la mission de pères capucins en l’Isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines", where he exposed that the Tupinambá people already had an understanding of the relation between the Moon and the tides before Europe. [41] The book is narrated by Art O’Neil and told in two timelines. As a boy Art is exiled after the execution of his father and many other men from his village in Ireland, and finds himself barely a child and working the lands of the “big house” in Jamaica. Industrious, clever, and hardworking Art finds himself in favour and noticed by the owners and overseers of the plantation, which allows him to generate money and dream of a future away from the troubled lands he left behind but still holds dear. Olive Collins grew up in Thurles, Tipperary, and now lives in Kildare. For the last fifteen years, she has worked in advertising in print media and radio. She has always loved the diversity of books and people. She has travelled extensively and still enjoys exploring other cultures and countries. Her inspiration is the ordinary everyday people who feed her little snippets of their lives. It’s the unsaid and gaps in conversation that she finds most valuable.Her third novel, The Weaver's Legacy, tells the story of an Irish Catholic colony in the American West from 1866 to 1937. Tidal phenomena are not limited to the oceans, but can occur in other systems whenever a gravitational field that varies in time and space is present. For example, the shape of the solid part of the Earth is affected slightly by Earth tide, though this is not as easily seen as the water tidal movements.

Olive Collins wraps a wonderful mystery around Art’s story, as the reader is taken forward to 1991. A skeleton is discovered on the grounds of Lugdale Estate, in the shadows of the Kerry Mountains in North Kerry. Art O’ Neill was born in the vicinity of this estate, where the present owner Yseult, now in her eighties, lives. The first Irish emigrants to Jamaica arrived more than 200 years previous to my Jamaican friend’s 1850 ancestors. In 1641, Ireland’s population was 1,466,000 and in 1652, 616,000. According to Sir William Petty, 850,000 were “wasted by the sword, plague, famine, hardship and banishment during the Confederation War 1641-1652.” At the end of the war, vast numbers of Irish men, women and children were forcibly transported by the English government. Art’s story and those of all those poor Irish children, the majority who never set foot on Irish soil again, just broke my heart. It’s not that long ago, a part of our history I was truly unaware of… Whereas the gravitational force subjected by a celestial body on Earth varies inversely as the square of its distance to the Earth, the maximal tidal force varies inversely as, approximately, the cube of this distance. [47] If the tidal force caused by each body were instead equal to its full gravitational force (which is not the case due to the free fall of the whole Earth, not only the oceans, towards these bodies) a different pattern of tidal forces would be observed, e.g. with a much stronger influence from the Sun than from the Moon: The solar gravitational force on the Earth is on average 179 times stronger than the lunar, but because the Sun is on average 389 times farther from the Earth, its field gradient is weaker. The overal proportionality is

Bestselling author Olive Collins “brings history to life in this mesmerizing epic spanning 5 generations and 170 years,” The Independent. The research undertaken for this book is very evident as you read through the book and the story develops. The writing style was spot on for the book and I loved the characters and the pace. The book hovers between two times periods and I really enjoyed this aspect it brought the story to life and it is a really tough and heart-breaking subject that has been handled very, very well. Named Most Anticipated of 2021 by Newsweek, Good Housekeeping, Hello! magazine, Oprah.com, Bustle, Popsugar, Betches, Sweet July, and GoodReads! Newton and others before Pierre-Simon Laplace worked the problem from the perspective of a static system (equilibrium theory), that provided an approximation that described the tides that would occur in a non-inertial ocean evenly covering the whole Earth. [27] The tide-generating force (or its corresponding potential) is still relevant to tidal theory, but as an intermediate quantity (forcing function) rather than as a final result; theory must also consider the Earth's accumulated dynamic tidal response to the applied forces, which response is influenced by ocean depth, the Earth's rotation, and other factors. [29] Today I bring you my review of this heartbreaking tale of a young Irish boy, who was taken away from his home and family in Co. Kerry,and forced to become an indentured slave/servant on an island in the Caribbean.

In 1740, the Académie Royale des Sciences in Paris offered a prize for the best theoretical essay on tides. Daniel Bernoulli, Leonhard Euler, Colin Maclaurin and Antoine Cavalleri shared the prize. [30] For the last four years I had skimmed off the surface to make more money. I too had benefited from the slavery system.”of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars The Tide Between Us: An Irish-Caribbean Story of Slavery & Emancipation by Olive Collins Some Irish acquired land and slaves. Names like O’Hara and O’Connor were recorded in 1837 during the compensation hearings when slaves were freed and their owners remunerated. The strong Irish influence is seen in place names, Irish Town, Clonmel, Dublin Castle, Sligoville, Belfast, Athenry and Kildare. The story starts with a young boy in Ireland who, like so many others is at the mercy of the ruling classes. It starts in 1991 with a descendant of Art O’Neil who in 1821 was transported as an Indentured Servant to a sugar plantation in Jamaica at the age of 10 to work off the penalty for his “crime” and the tale follows his story and that of his offspring, his desire for retribution and the lives of the slaves and plantation wives.