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The night of 20 June 1631 saw an event so extraordinary that it is surprising that more has not been written about it. In a daring act of piracy a flotilla of Corsairs from Algiers came ashore on the coast of County Cork in Ireland, set fire to a street of thatched cottages and carried off the occupants to be enslaved in Africa.
Algiers Based Pirates and Privateers
Political Intrigue and Extraordinary Entrepreneurship
It is surprising to learn,Supra Vaider Low Shoes, for example, that slaves were granted some free time. Although in chains they were able to spend time outside the walls of their prison and some showed sufficient entrepreneurship to set up businesses – some of which might more accurately be described in modern parlance as scams – and thereby earn enough to buy their freedom.
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Having done so, not all chose to travel back to their previous homes, instead making prosperous lives for themselves in Algiers. Included is the story of one young Irish slave who was apprenticed to a jeweller, bought his freedom and returned to Ireland where he created the design of the world renowned Cladagh ring. Widely believed to be of Celtic origin, this design is in fact North African.
The psychological phenomenon known as Stockholm syndrome whereby those involved in hostage situations form an emotional bond with their captors is discussed as are the lives of female slaves who became the favourites of Turkish nobles. At least one such became a notoriously tyrannical Empress. The life of a typical harem is explained and may surprise many readers.
Des Ekin is a journalist and author born in Northern Ireland and now resident in Dublin. His meticulously researched book explores the political background to this event and conjures a world of political intrigue, extraordinary hardship and even more surprising entrepreneurship.
Meanwhile Algiers-based pirates and privateers were terrorising the seaways between Africa and Europe, taking captives from Dutch, French and British ships. The British navy,Supra Cruizer, despite its reputation for brilliant seamanship in the 16th century, had by now fallen pray to corruption and become ineffective at least in so far as its ability to police the waters between mainland Britain and Ireland were concerned.
The available records of the raid and the subsequent lives of the captives are few but Ekin has trawled through first-hand accounts by other individuals who were similarly captured and enslaved albeit mostly from vessels at sea. He uses these to paint a vivid picture of life on board a Corsair as a hostage bound for North Africa and of the life of slaves in Algiers.
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He explains how in-fighting between Irish and Anglo-Irish families led to the village of Baltimore, Ireland, being abandoned until a group of Calvinist fishermen and their families from Cornwall acquired a lease. They built houses around the small harbour and established a successful fish-salting business.
This book is written in a style that is easy to read and contains a wealth of historical information that is by turns surprising, fascinating,Supra Vulk Low, inspiring and blood curdling. It is highly recommended reading for anyone interested in 17th century life in Ireland with its familial double-dealing and English indifference as its leaders became preoccupied with the build up to a civil war. It is equally enthralling for the more general reader who simply enjoys a “ripping yarn” for it is packed full of them.
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