'excellent popular studies'
- Irish Times
'a former journalist, Ekin is a concise writer who laces his work with humour but still manages to rigorously source the crucial details. On his trip, which takes in 30 locations, he uncovers new information seeing through the glamorising of these swashbuckling adventurers and revealing stories of lesser-known pirates whose bloodstained careers are forgotten'
- Irish Times
'his journeys provide insight, not only into piratical matters, but also into the socio-historical past of the island of Ireland'
- Irish Examiner