Iconic Algiers Inn making waves in Baltimore

WEST CORK has a few iconic bars with a reputation spreading over the waves — and the Algiers Inn is definitely up there with the best of them, hosting celebs, slaking thirsts and appearing in movies, ads and TV shows.

The exotic-sounding name recalls the famed and infamous sacking of the West Cork harbour village of Baltimore, by Barbary pirates from North Africa, who made off with more than 100 locals, sold into lives of slavery.

This Inn premises dates to 1892, when the rail line came to Baltimore, but today, the Algiers Inn’s patrons are volunteers, tourists, the merely hungry and thirsty, and locals, arriving by boat, bus and car, with an ever-expanding season.