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- English
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Spike Island's Republican Prisoners, 1921
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 The Breakdown of Civil Law
- 2 The IRA in the Martial Law Area
- 3 The British Army in the Martial Law Area
- 4 The Military Trials and Imprisonment of Civilians
- 5 The Prisons and Internment Camps in the Martial Law Area
- 6 The Military Prison in the Field, Spike Island, 1921
- 7 The Prison Routine on Spike Island
- 8 The Escape of Three Prisoners
- 9 The Fatal Shooting of Capt. Patrick White
- 10 Hunger Strikes and Riots
- 11 The Escape of Seven Internees
- 12 The Closing of the Military Prison in the Field
- Conclusion
- List of Republican Prisoners on Spike Island
- List of Internees on Spike Island
- List of Appendices
- Primary Source Material
- Bibliography
- Picture Sections