Claim: Irish people were forced into slavery in British Colonies for hundreds of years.
Fact-check: The "Irish slave" myth has been widely discredited - Full Fact
Verdict: this is incorrect. claiming the irish experience of indentured servitude was chattel slavery is a misrepresentation of history.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Rachael Krishna
Date published: 2020-07-08T00:00:00