A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

Here are three recent graphic novels that can help us to remember resistance against slavery. They follow in the footsteps of ...

I recently went on the Cozumel pirate ship dinner cruise and it was a blast! I've got all the information so you can decide ...

St. Patrick’s Day usually conjures images of partying, Catholicism, Irish nationalism and, perhaps most famously, the color ...

Basso Celestia, a baroque ensemble, will perform music laced with history Friday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Harrisonburg ...

Cutthroat Island’ was meant to be an innovative adventure story led by a female star. However, an unrestrained producer and a series of misfortunes transformed it into one of the biggest flops of the ...

He was, however, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved in Ireland ... the first evidence of St. Patrick being a beloved ...

The Free Thinking Festival Essay : Sculpture and Seduction in the 18th Century Free Thinking Festival ... feasting with pirate chieftains in Algiers and munching melons in the eastern Mediterranean.

the world's only pirate treasure chest, and one of two surviving 17th-century Jolly Roger flags (that familiar black flag featuring a skull and crossbones). At the center of the museum ...

He was, however, captured by Irish pirates and enslaved in Ireland ... being a beloved figure in Ireland emerged. In the early 17th century, Luke Wadding, an Irish priest, persuaded the Catholic ...