Anniversary of Baltimore pirate raid

It is 382 years this week since the Jun 20, 1631, raid on the thriving Cork fishing village of Baltimore by pirates from Algiers in Morocco.

The date was not by chance as Des Ekin explains in his book The Stolen Village — Baltimore and the Barbary Pirates.

English settlers, many of them Protestant of Calvinist beliefs, escaping persecution in England, lived in Baltimore. They paid leases and made Baltimore their home alongside local Irish Catholics. Their trades included fine sail boats for dragnet fishing for the fish industry.