Kilkenny Arts Festival has announced the premiere of a new opera, Custom of the Coast, exploring the lives of Savita Halappanavar and Anne Bonny.

Today, we look into the lives of the two greatest female pirates to ever exist.

Opera, and theatre to the fore, while festival will also return to Castle Yard with a new and unmissable acrobatic spectacle ...

He links and contrasts Bonny’s story with that of Savita Halappanavar, whose death in 2012, due in part to the restrictive ...

As he delves into long-forgotten events for a gripping new podcast, historian David Olusoga takes aim at what he sees as the ...

HALF A million revellers packed the streets of Dublin as the whole world turned green yesterday. On the day of our nation’s ...

and uncover the lives of Anne Bonny and Mary Read – two women who defied the British Empire to become pirates in the Caribbean. Given the ubiquitousness of books, documentaries, and even ...

the lives of pirates like Blackbeard and Anne Bonny, and its global impact, from shipboard shrines to the Bombardment of Algiers. It also explores the perception of piracy in popular culture ...

Ever dreamed of crossing blades like a daring pirate, fearless musketeer ... outfight an entire navy like Anne Bonny, or trade wits and steel like Westley and Inigo, this class is for you! This ...