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Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921

Tom O'Neill MA
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780750996273
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 13 May 2021
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
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In 1921, during the Irish War of Independence, the fort on Spike Island in County Cork was the largest British-military-run prison for Republican prisoners and internees in the Martial Law area, housing almost 1,400 men from Munster and south Leinster. Tom O’Neill has compiled an outstanding record of these men, using primary-source material from Irish Military Archives, British Army records, and prisoner and internee autograph books. This book includes details of arrests, charges, trials, convictions, sentences and transfers of the Republicans held on Spike Island.

From the establishment of the military prison in 1921, to the escapes, hunger strikes and riots, as well as the fatal shooting by sentries of two internees that took place there, Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921 is the first comprehensive history of individuals and events on the island during the Irish War of Independence.

Spike Island is now a world-class tourist attraction.
About Tom O'Neill | Tom O'Neill MA
TOM O’NEILL has an MA in history from University College Cork and is the author of Spike Island’s Republican Prisoners 1921, and two books on The Battle of Clonmult; he is the co-author of two other military books. He lives in Midleton, Co. Cork.

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