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.

When the real pirates of yore first landed on America’s shores in the 1600s, little did they know that one day, they would ...

although governments sometimes tried to conscript pirates as “privateers” tasked with raiding other countries’ supply routes, piracy continued to grow throughout the 1600s and early 1700s ...