Spike Island, County Cork
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Spike Island (Irish: Inis Píc) is an island of 103 Acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. It was significant in the French intervention following the Glorious Revolution, and was later purchased by the British government in 1779 becoming the site of Fort Westmoreland. (Named for John Fane, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.) Later a prison and convict depot, it was used to house "convicts" prior to penal transportation. It gained a reputation as "Ireland's Alcatraz". It remained in use as a garrison and prison through the Irish War of Independence, when IRA prisoners were held there. Richard Barrett w...
Spike Island (Irish: Inis Píc) is an island of 103 Acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. It was significant in the French intervention following the Glorious Revolution, and was later purchased by the British government in 1779 becoming the site of Fort Westmoreland. (Named for John Fane, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.) Later a prison and convict depot, it was used to house "convicts" prior to penal transportation. It gained a reputation as "Ireland's Alcatraz". It remained in use as a garrison and prison through the Irish War of Independence, when IRA prisoners were held there. Richard Barrett was among those detained there, but escaped during the truce of 1921.
