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ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE

03/12/2017

ANNE BONNY (c.1698 – c.1725s) AN IRISH PIRATE It was common belief among pirates that having women aboard a ship was bad luck. It didn’t prevent a few swashbuckling ladies from joining and even leading bands of buccaneers. Anne Bonny, or Bonney, has been the inspiration for countless stories, books, films, songs and other works. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731), pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson, wrote about her in History of the Pyrates (1724). She is one of seventy-five portraits in Marian…

Don Leopoldo O’Donnell: Brief account of a Spanish noble

03/06/2017

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The term Irish-Spaniards are people born in Spain of Irish descent. More specifically it refers to members of the Irish families established in Spain since The Flight of the Earls in 1607, e.g. O’Neills and O’Donnells, or what is known as The Flight of the Wild Geese following the defeat of James II in 1690 at the Battle of the Boyne when thousands of Irish departed seeking exile in Catholic Europe and also beyond. Don Leopoldo O’Donnell (1809-67) From…