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Emigration, the age of sail and empire driven military endeavor. Ireland’s historic island occupies a special, perhaps unrivaled place, in the Irish story.Spike Island – the rebels, residents and crafty criminals of Ireland’s historic island, written by John Crotty and published by Merrion Press, is out now.AUTHOR:John Crotty is an Irish author from Cappoquin, County Waterford. A frequent traveller, John has been across the globe seeing over sixty countries including many of the worlds wonders. John has dedicated his life to understanding and sharing the history of the worlds many varied cultures, to better understand the Irish story.John returned to Ireland to manage Irish wonder, Spike Island, as CEO for six years. John’s bestselling title, ‘Spike Island’, is the authors first book with further works on Irish history commissioned and commenced for release in 2025. (See more info and pics at About - John Crotty - author (johncrottyauthor.com)Below is a series of articles I’ve written here before on topics which were mentioned in todays post!

As prison ships sailed out of the bay and emigrant ships departed for Australia and America. Cobh became the largest departure point from Ireland for well over a century, some 2.5 million seeing Spike Island from the deck as they sailed to a new life.Convict labour arrived en masse in the 1840’s as a famine era prison opened. Like the fortress this quickly became a monumental endeavor, its population growing until it was the largest known prison in the world by 1853. 2400 inmates crammed the forts interior, every building brought into use and hasty additions like a timber prison and iron prison filled to capacity. It is still the largest ever formal prison in Britain or Ireland, its inhabitants including Fenians and men like William Smith O’Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher, the leaders of the 1848 rebellion. The island developed an association with Irish nationalism to add to its many historical strands.1848 - William Smith O’Brien and Thomas Francis Meagher under arrestThe fort returned to military use from 1883 and was operational during World War One, training troops on the outer island in purpose built training trenches, replicas of those on the fronts of France. It also maintained a submarine net from its shore to the mainland. A third prison arrived in 1921 to hold Ireland’s War of Independence prisoners, a dramatic eight months beset by riots, escapes and a prisoner shooting.The island became a political football in 1922 as Winston Churchill insisted it be retained by Britain in the Anglo-Irish Treaty, a small matter compared to the loss of the six counties of Norther Ireland. Its eventual return and handover to the Irish Defense Forces in 1938 came just in time to spare the fort from German bombers in World War Two. This set the scene for 40 years of Irish army and navy use before a final prison opened from 1985 – 2004.This return to Ireland in 1938 and preservation from the horrors of World War Two mean Spike Island is now home to a perfectly preserved example of a star shape fortress from the late 18th century, one which is the pinnacle of 3 centuries of coastal defensive refinement. When combined with the impressive underground works at Fort Camden and gunpowder factory and trail that weaved its way from Ballincollig to Rocky Island, the Cork Harbour forts represent the finest examples in the world of military fortification undertaken in the late 18th – early 19th century.ShareThere are talks, long overdue, of submission of the area for UNESCO recognition. Considering Spike Island’s long history as a monastery and island prison, the endeavor seems destined for success.With no shortage of irony, a location that once imprisoned the Irish nation, and sought to forever incarcerate Ireland’s independence dreams, is now a source of great pride for Irish citizens. A symbol of Ireland’s inextinguishable desire for self-determination.There is much of the world of the late 18th century to be seen and understood on Spike Island today, that of transportation, incarceration,

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