The pirates and smugglers of Spike Island Cork

Pirates have been carrying out their murderous activity ever since the first trade vessels took to the seas. The first documented instances are recorded over 3400 years ago in the Mediterranean sea.  Parchments from 286AD… View Post

The explosion of the gunship Breda – 1691

Spike Island is most famously known as Ireland’s Alcatraz. This is as a result of the Island housing four prisons over the four centuries. The island fortress is well known in military circles as one… View Post