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Spike Island

- Saints, Felons and Famine
Af: Michael Martin Engelsk Paperback

Spike Island

- Saints, Felons and Famine
Af: Michael Martin Engelsk Paperback
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The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it''s strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in extensive Irish heritage that stretches further back into the mists of Irelands past beyond the arrival of the Normans and on through to the darkest period of Irish history. From an island of ecclesiastical retreat and contemplation to a dark and godforsaken destination of victims of Ireland''s Great Famine, Spike Island has been a part of two contrasting periods in Irish history. The era of saints and scholars during which Spike was described as a Holy Island is set against a later backdrop of famine, disease and death and the dark judicial practice that saw men and boys transported from it to the penal colonies of distant Australia.

This book explores the island through these two very different environments from the founding of the monastery there by Saint Carthage to the use of the island as a place of detention, punishment and undignified death. From saints to starvation, ''Spike Island'' embodies a part of the brightest a darkest legacy of Ireland''s history.

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The dominant star shaped fortress on Spike Island testifies to it''s strategic importance in the once heavily fortified bastion of British military might that was Cork Harbour. Beneath and around this edifice however lies the story of an island steeped in extensive Irish heritage that stretches further back into the mists of Irelands past beyond the arrival of the Normans and on through to the darkest period of Irish history. From an island of ecclesiastical retreat and contemplation to a dark and godforsaken destination of victims of Ireland''s Great Famine, Spike Island has been a part of two contrasting periods in Irish history. The era of saints and scholars during which Spike was described as a Holy Island is set against a later backdrop of famine, disease and death and the dark judicial practice that saw men and boys transported from it to the penal colonies of distant Australia.

This book explores the island through these two very different environments from the founding of the monastery there by Saint Carthage to the use of the island as a place of detention, punishment and undignified death. From saints to starvation, ''Spike Island'' embodies a part of the brightest a darkest legacy of Ireland''s history.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 128
ISBN-13: 9781845889104
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 184588910X
Kategori: Lokalhistorie
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2006
Længde: 18mm
Bredde: 219mm
Højde: 148mm
Forlag: The History Press Ltd
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2006
Forfatter(e): Michael Martin
Forfatter(e) Michael Martin

Kategori Lokalhistorie

ISBN-13 9781845889104

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 128

Udgave

Længde 18mm

Bredde 219mm

Højde 148mm

Udg. Dato 1 maj 2006

Oplagsdato 1 maj 2006

Forlag The History Press Ltd

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