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Piracy off the coast of Islay

19th September 201620th September 2016 Karon McBrideBlog

The Scottish isle of Islay (pronounced eye-luh) is a peaceful place, hardly one associated with piracy, but in the late eighteenth Century, things were very different. From the Caledonian Mercury – Saturday 28 October 1780[…]

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