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.

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.