Michael Martin

Spike Island (eBook, ePUB)

Saints, Felons and Famine

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

After fourteen centuries of military and ecclesiastical heritage, 2005 saw the then-Justice Minister Michael McDowell put in place proposals to turn Spike Island into Ireland's 'Alcatraz', through the construction of a £70 million super-prison. Spike Island, situated proudly in Cobh Harbour, has a long penal history. Cromwell used it as a holding centre for those awaiting transportation to Barbados; their place was to be then taken by those waiting to be shipped to Van Diemen's land. Prisoners of the War of Independence were kept there, before the island was finally handed over to the Irish. In 2007, following extensive campaigning by heritage campaigners, these plans were dropped, replaced by plans for its preservation as a heritage site. The chairman of Cobh Tourism at the time was Michael Martin, the author of this volume, and this is his story of our very own 'Devil's Island'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: THP Ireland
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780752481104
• Artikelnr.: 38398203

Autorenporträt

The author has written a small tourist guide book, Titanic Trail Cobh Queenstown for Cobh which has sold over 15,000 copies. He has also made a 1 hour DVD documentary on the same subject that has sold in excess of 5,000 copies in Ireland and the USA. He has written numerous articles which have been published in Irish defence force magazines on issues regarding representation and has also contributed on tourism matters to the local newspapers and newsletters. The author was a guest speaker on RTE Radio 1 in delivering one of the Thomas Davis Lectures. He has featured briefly in television documentaries produced by 20th Century Fox, Korean National Television, Australian TV and National Geographic regarding Cobh and Titanic. In the last 2 years he has featured in 3 television documentaries for RTE television. He published an annual visitor guide to Cobh from 2003 to 2006 in which he usually contributed an article on local history.