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.
