Who was civilised?
The Middle East has been the focus of lessons. Ideas about religious groups are firmly fixed in the minds of those in the class and it is a struggle to challenge ideas rooted in prejudice. Perhaps it would have useful to have given them photocopies of a page from Des Ekin’s book The Stolen Village.
The Stolen Village tells of a raid on Baltimore, Co Cork in 1631, a raid in which 107 people were taken away as slaves by the corsairs. Some of those captured in 1631 may have …