Spike Island - Released Feb 2008
Michael Martin
ISBN: 9781845889104
Price: €14.99
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.
In 2007, following extensive campaigning, these plans were dropped, and the new plans for the the island to be preserved as a world heritage site put in place. The chairman of Cobh Tourism at the time was Michael Martin, the author of this work, the story of our very own ‘Devil’s Island’.
On 30 January this year, RTE’s Tom MacSweeney officially launched Spike Island on board the LE Roisin, at the Deep Water Quay in Cobh. It is available in all good bookshops.
Images of Cork City - released Feb 2008
Brian Lillis
ISBN: 9781845885984
Price: €19.99
Images of Cork City is a stunning photographic record of Cork at the start of the new millennium. From the city’s striking river and harbour to the lively city centre and peaceful public parks, the reader is taken on a journey that shows the city at its most appealing. Photographer Brian Lillis has captured something special in this, his first book.
