She only smiled, O'Driscolls child, she thought of Baltimore.

Thanks for that poem Ard Mhacha and McGrath. Interesting that conspiracy theories abounded then.

Thanks Lady Jean for giving another literary reference, but how few there are. As mentioned above, abduction by press gang, recruiters and gypsies (though the latter usually of willing females) is well represented in the tradition.

I guess I will not amaze the singaround with a song of Moorish abduction from a seaside village.

Keith.