We have cabin fever so this week we are kicking off our two part pirate special with Anne Bonny, the lesser known Irish pirate.  Forced to leave Kinsale at a young age due to questionable parentage, Anne ending up carousing around the Caribbean with her paramour Calico Jack and a crew of unscrupulous pirates. She captured public imagination as a hard living, violent pirate and a woman no less.  Tune in to hear the blood curdling legends and more than a few pirate puns... it's been a long quarantine. Help!

References/ Further Reading

Clip from Muppet Treasure Island, Jim Henson Productions, 1996

Dictionary of Irish Biography: Anne Bonny

Brittanica Academic: Anne Bonny

The Way of the Pirates: Anne Bonny

Smithsonian Magazine: If There’s a Man Among Ye: The Tale of Pirate Queens Anne Bonny and Mary Read

Irish Examiner: The fact and fiction of Cork pirate Captain Anne Bonny

Irish Times: Irish women warriors: from Granuaile to Anne Bonny and Countess Markievicz

ThoughtCo: Biography of Anne Bonny, Irish Pirate and Privateer

Crime Museum: Anne Bonny

National Park Service: Anne Bonny, Pirate

Anne Bonny Pirate: Anne Bonny and Female Pirates

Wild Irish Women by Marian Broderick,O'Brien Press, 2004.