TIL the pirate ‘Black Bart’ believed Irish people to be some of the worst people to have on your crew due to them being highly mutinous. As a result, many people who Bart tried to force into piracy would often fake an Irish accent so they could get out of it.

11 comments

1. Centuries of rebelling against the Brits made us mutinous.

2. “Ah, Bartie — ‘tis yourself!”

3. Raise the mast and load the cannons.

   – yeah i will now.

4. [citation needed] but cool if true.

5. ‘They also killed Dead Tom!’

   ‘But Dead Tom’s always been dead. That’s why he’s called Dead Tom.’

6. Thus began the long tradition of people faking Irish accents that lived on in Hollywood today

7. Was reading the pirates code and I have to say for their hardships, and their hardy-ships, their rules were fair.

8. Howya Barto, after dah raid cudje gis a few quid yeah?

9. If you check the article it’s marked “citation needed”, i.e. shite talk

10. We could use a good mutiny right now.

11. Protestants, up to no good as usual!