Irish Greyhounds in North Africa

In 16 30, the entire population of baltimore were kidnapped by algerian pirates and sold as slaves in north africa. In an article from 18 59, he's suggesting that it wasn't just that one sacking of bALTimore in 16 30. There was lords of these raids throughout the middle ages in ireland, from where irish people were taken and sent to africa for slavery. So if there's all these reports of hering the irish language in north af Africa, or north africans being able to understand irish people when they make it here, maybe that has to do with things like the sack ofbaltimore. He says such people