Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) visits the Reverend at his church. The production was originally broadcast as a two episode program in Britain totalling 187 minutes. Later, it was edited down to 150 minutes to fit in a 3 hour timeslot with 30 minutes of advertising for the U.S. market; it was also divided into three parts, the second and third parts constituting the original second episode. Jamaica Inn (1983 TV series) Jamaica Inn is a 1983 British television miniseries adapted from the novel "Jamaica Inn" by Daphne du Maurier. It is a gothic period piece of piracy, smuggling and murder set in northeastern Cornwall,
Irish people in Jamaica indentured servants were transported unwillingly. More than 2,000 children alone were sent on ships from Galway Bay. Of those surviving the long journey many more succumbed to disease, the harsh conditions and unfamiliar tropical conditions. One of the first English colonies in the Caribbean was established on Barbados in 1626. Irish merchant families from towns like Galway, Kinsale and Waterford established their trading networks in the Caribbean. Irish transportees were first brought to Jamaica in large numbers as slaves under the English republic of Oliver Cromwell following the capture of Jamaica from the Spanish in 1655 by William Pen and