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The Stolen Village: Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates
By Des Ekin
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By Des Ekin
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Baltimore’s 1631 sack reveals how Islamist piracy rewrote Irish history through a captive village’s harrowing odyssey
In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates some would live out their d...
In June 1631 pirates from Algiers and armed troops of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, led by the notorious pirate captain Morat Rais, stormed ashore at the little harbour village of Baltimore in West Cork. They captured almost all the villagers and bore them away to a life of slavery in North Africa. The prisoners were destined for a variety of fates some would live out their d...
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