The stolen village by des ekin5/9/2023 ![]() ![]() As ever with Irish history there is plenty of folklore. Firstly he drops the astonishing fact that the Baltimore captives were not Irish – they were English settlers who took over land once the property of the O’Driscoll clan, they were religious dissenters keen to build a life away from the established church. He has visited ancient libraries ( Trinity College and Archbishop Marsh’s, both in Dublin), sought out books in French, and visited Iceland in search of material – the north Atlantic island was also a destination for the Barbary corsairs. ![]() ![]() Although a journalist by trade rather than a historian this is thoroughly well-researched. All -20 men and 87 women and children- were destined for the Badistan Slave Market in Algiers.ĭes Ekin describes this book as a ‘labour of love’. ![]() A month later on the 28th of July, after a sea journey back to the Mediterranean, they learnt of their fate. In the early hours of the 20th they attacked the village of Baltimore, setting fire to homes, stealing what they could and taking 107 of the local population as captives. On the 19th June 1631 two armed vessels under the command of Morat Rais, a Barbary corsair (pirate)rounded Kinsale Head off the coast of County Cork. The remarkable story of the Irish coastal village sacked by Barbary Pirates in 1631 ![]()
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