On this episode of Our American Stories, most Americans know the story of Irish immigrants arriving during the Great Famine. Far fewer know about an earlier chapter, when thousands of Irish men, women, and children were forcibly removed from their homeland and sent across the Atlantic under English rule. Their story stretches from Viking raids to Cromwell's conquest and the earliest English colonies in the New World.

Colin D. Heaton, military veteran and co-host of the Forgotten History YouTube channel, shares this often-overlooked chapter of Irish history and explains why it remains one of the most misunderstood stories of the colonial era.

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