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ON THIS DAY: 20 JUNE 1631: A village in Ireland was taken into slavery by north African raiders. On that date in 1631, north African corsairs, or pirates, raided the village of Baltimore on the west Cork coast and took at least 107 of the villagers captive…
Most of those abducted were part of an English settlement which had been established in the middle of a region that was part of the Ó Drisceóil clan territory. It was a part of the violent colonisation of that part of Ireland which had resulted in the victory of the English in the Nine Years War that ended with the Battle of Kinsale in 1601.
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Most of those abducted were part of an English settlement which had been established in the middle of a region that was part of the Ó Drisceóil clan territory. It was a part of the violent colonisation of that part of Ireland which had resulted in the victory…
The Sack of Baltimore, as it became known, had a significance beyond Ireland as it was one of a centuries-old series of such raids by north African slavers on coastal towns and sea-going vessels. Those abducted were part of an estimated million or more Europeans who became slaves under the Islamic Ottoman Empire and its north African allies mostly between 1550 and 1750.
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The Sack of Baltimore, as it became known, had a significance beyond Ireland as it was one of a centuries-old series of such raids by north African slavers on coastal towns and sea-going vessels. Those abducted were part of an estimated million or more Europeans…
The Baltimore captives included 33 adult women, 54 boys and girls and 20 adult men. At most three were eventually ransomed years later. The men mostly were consigned to be galley slaves, sometimes never setting foot on land again. The women and female children almost invariably were sold into sexual bondage. Adolescent males were often castrated and sometimes also raped, as is apparently still the fate of males enslaved in Afghanistan and other Islamic countries.
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A family of survivors from the Lusitania in Cobh, Cork. RMS Lusitania was a British ocean liner that was sunk on 7 May 1915 by a German U-boat 11 miles (18 km) off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 1,198 passengers and crew.
Castletownshend, Cork in 1910.
Coloured and restored.
Coloured and restored.
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Castletownshend, Cork in 1910. Coloured and restored.
Travellers at Cahirmee horse fair, Cork in 1954.
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Travellers at Cahirmee horse fair, Cork in 1954.
Fr Browne’s image of a Traveller family in Saggart, South Dublin in 1925.
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Fr Browne’s image of a Traveller family in Saggart, South Dublin in 1925.
1900 photo featuring pig herding on Friar Street in Youghal, Co. Cork.
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1900 photo featuring pig herding on Friar Street in Youghal, Co. Cork.
1900 photo of Youghal Strand in Cork. Youghal is situated on the estuary of the River Blackwater, in the past, was militarily and economically an important seaport town.
17th August 1882, five members of the Joyce family were murdered in Mám Trasna, Co. Mayo.
The ensuing prosecution of Maolra Seoighe, an innocent man, is infamous in legal history. Seoighe was executed for the murders as he could not defend himself in an English-speaking court.
The ensuing prosecution of Maolra Seoighe, an innocent man, is infamous in legal history. Seoighe was executed for the murders as he could not defend himself in an English-speaking court.
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Seoighe was confused and upset that he was to be hanged, but only spoke Irish. The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, John Spencer bribed three eyewitnesses, and the Crown Prosecutor withheld key evidence. The media characterised the suspects as savages, with The Spectator paper describing: "a class of peasants who are scarcely civilised beings, and approach far nearer to savages than any other white men ... and in the discipline of life no higher than Maories or other Polynesians."
Pat Casey and Pat Joyce were also executed. Seoighe was a father of five children.
Pat Casey and Pat Joyce were also executed. Seoighe was a father of five children.
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The murders themselves were horrific, and the true culprits were never found.
On having the verdict translated, Seoighe pleaded "Níl mé ciontach", meaning "I am not guilty".
James Joyce called him a "bewildered old man, left over from a culture which is not ours, a deaf-mute before his judge ... a symbol of the Irish nation at the bar of public opinion."
"Táim ag imeacht." - the last words of Seoighe before his execution by hanging.
17 August 1882 - the brutal shootings and bludgeonings of John, Micheál, Brighid, Mairéad and Peigí Joyce.
On having the verdict translated, Seoighe pleaded "Níl mé ciontach", meaning "I am not guilty".
James Joyce called him a "bewildered old man, left over from a culture which is not ours, a deaf-mute before his judge ... a symbol of the Irish nation at the bar of public opinion."
"Táim ag imeacht." - the last words of Seoighe before his execution by hanging.
17 August 1882 - the brutal shootings and bludgeonings of John, Micheál, Brighid, Mairéad and Peigí Joyce.
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'Most vulnerable in this bilingual world was the Irish monoglot, a category that the sceptical state often refused to believe even existed: denying any knowledge of English was seen by many officials as a strategy to subvert the judicial process.'
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https://archive.is/FQxzQ
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'Most vulnerable in this bilingual world was the Irish monoglot, a category that the sceptical state often refused to believe even existed: denying any knowledge of English was seen by many officials as a strategy to subvert the judicial process.' https:/…
A two-hour docu-drama on the murders and the trial can be seen on the TG4 Player:
https://bit.ly/3AJMruq
https://bit.ly/3AJMruq
TG4
Murdair Mhám Trasna (1-1) | Player | TG4 | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile
A feature length docu-drama recounting the infamous brutal slaying in 1882 of a family in the remote village of Mám Trasna, the West of ireland.
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Though Samhain, the precursor to Halloween, is considered to be a Celtic festival, the Mound of Hostages at Tara, which aligns with the rising sun at Samhain, is thought to be 5,000 years old, far predating Celtic inhabitation, and hints at more primordial roots.
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Oct 31: #Celtic holiday of Samhain, or "summer's end", is celebrated; a night where the dead are unleashed from the Otherworld to roam ours.