The fact and fiction of Cork pirate Captain Anne Bonny

Robert Hume explores six popular myths about the improbable life of Cork’s Anne Bonny, the Caribbean pirate queen.

Three hundred years ago in 1718, during the ‘Golden Age of Piracy’, a young Irish woman with burnished red hair and pea-green eyes, called Anne Cormac, eloped to the Bahamas with dashing Irish sailor Jim Bonny, to loot treasure ships.