The Alliance of Pirates

Name: The Alliance of Pirates
Brand: Cork University Press

Cork University Press

The Alliance of PiratesIreland and Atlantic Piracy in the Early Seventeenth Century\nAuthor(s): Connie Kelleher\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cork University Press, Ireland\nImprint: Cork University Press\nISBN-13: 9781782053651, 978-1782053651\nSynopsis\nIn the early part of the seventeenth-century, along the southwest coast of Ireland, piracy was a way of life. Following the outlawing of privateering in 1603 by the new king of England, disenfranchised like-minded men of the sea, many former privateers, naval sailors, ordinary seamen and traditional plunderers moved their base of operations to Ireland and formed an alliance. Within the context of the Munster Plantation, many of the pirates came to settle, some bringing families, and these men and their activities not alone influenced the socio-economic and geo-political landscape of Ireland at that time but challenged European maritime power centres, while forging links across the North Atlantic that touched the Mediterranean, North.