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  Montserrat: The Caribbean's Emerald Isle

  Montserrat has endured 15 years of volcanic eruption yet this tiny island remains determinedly upbeat, says Maggie O'Sullivan.

  It's St Patrick's Day and I'm in a bar. A fiddle is scratching out an Irish folk song and the crowd – many with shamrocks painted on their faces – joins in. But I'm not in Dublin or an Irish bar in New York. I'm in Montserrat. And no, I haven't had one rum and Ting too many. There really is a giant leprechaun leaning against the bar.

  There are only three places in the world where St Patrick's Day is a public holiday: Ireland, the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador, and this tiny British protectorate in the Lesser Antilles. But only on Montserrat do the celebrations last all week and include displays of African dance, a Freedom run and a "slave feast".

  The reason is to be found in the island's distant past. In the 17th century it was settled by Irish indentured servants fleeing from nearby Nevis. They were later joined by Catholic refugees from Virginia. Perhaps it reminded them of home as lush, green Montserrat – nicknamed the Emerald Isle – bears a striking resemblance to coastal Ireland (if coastal Ireland had black sand beaches). To this day, the national emblem is a carved shamrock, and the flag features a woman dressed in green holding a cross and a harp.

  By the end of the 18th century, thousands of African slaves had been shipped in to work on the sugar plantations and when the slaves staged an unsuccessful uprising in 1768, they chose St Patrick's Day on which to do it. And that's why, more than 250 years later, we're singing a sentimental song about Ireland in memory of African slaves.

  But while my fellow carousers in The Green Monkey Inn are predominantly expats and American tourists here for the craic, most of the islanders – the descendants of the slaves and, to a lesser extent, the Irish settlers – are heading for a sports field a few miles away, in Salem. Here, the good ladies of Montserrat are unpacking their cool boxes and setting up their stalls for the Slave Feast. The PA pumps out ear-splitting contemporary R &B and, bizarrely, the principal dress code seems to be green and orange tartan.

  "That's our national dress," says Margaret Wilson, who runs nearby Olveston House where I am staying. Does she mean it's an ancient Caribbean weave? "Oh no. There was a competition to design it a few years ago…"

  Margaret suggests a bowl of Goat Water. A cross between Irish stew and oxtail soup, Goat Water is Montserrat's national dish (and somewhat older than its national dress). As we're looking for somewhere to eat it, we spot a man with a long silver ponytail. It's Pete Haycock, formerly of the Climax Blues Band.

  Pete and his band were part of the music phenomenon that made Montserrat famous. In the late Seventies and Eighties, some of the world's greatest artists – Paul McCartney, Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, The Police – came to record at Sir George Martin's state-of-the-art Air Studios.

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