Mere 4 years later: Angel is actually from Galway not Cork and its made clear his father is a puritan - i.e. an Anglo-Irish protestant rather than an Old Irish catholic.

Although the Romans did destroy the city of Carthage (only to rebuild it a few years later) coastal North Africa was one of the richest and most fertile provinces of the empire and remained so for 1,200 years after their conquest in 146 BC