Pirate raid’s gory details captured in exhibition

Pirates who sacked a West Cork village in 1631 sold more than double the amount of its inhabitants into slavery than was previously thought, new research has found.

Pirate raid’s gory details captured in exhibition

And 381 years later, a life-size mannequin of the man who led the North African pirates’ raid on Baltimore has arrived in the seaside village’s Dun na Sead castle.

The mannequin of pirateer Murat Reis, a Dutchman who converted to Islam, now takes pride of place in a museum exhibition which has just opened there.

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