Barbary pirate

elpresdentde

i was reading abook about the Barbary pirates and i read that in the late 17th century they raided a village somewhere in cork and took over 200 people as slaves any idea where this village is thank.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates

Lockstep

The village was that of Baltimore in Cork.


A rather good book of it can be found here
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0862789559

Kaiser_Sma

I wonder how much of the irish population was lost to international slavery over the last couple of thousand years. Lot of irish genes in iceland apparently.

elpresdentde

very true but we also took slaves remember St paddy we also enslaved Scotland the scoti were from the north so its a two way street

Kaiser_Sma

Oh yeah i know, i didn't mean it in a wronged nationalist way. Slavery was the done thing back then, especially (but not mutually exclusivly) by non-christian nations like ireland at the time. Irish, picts and saxons where collectivly responsible for the eventual destruction of the romano british society and culture.

elpresdentde

id say that romano britian hell fell from external forces ie the withdrall of troops from britian
leaveing the Provence totaly unable to defend themselves rather then the poor savages on the sidelines ie the picts celts.

Balmed Out

The people abducted from Baltimore were mainly English settlers from what I remember