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.

Patrick wrote in Latin, and signed his works “Patricius.” In some accounts of his life, Patrick was given the birth name Maewyn Succat, but historians do not agree on this. History: Why do we ...

"What's unusual about Irish emigration is that just as many women ... Anne Bonny is always one that children latch on to; she was a pirate born in Cork who sailed the Carribean seas in the 18th ...