Cork | Knocklyon History Society

Title: Spike Islland
Speaker: Gerry Lovett
Time: @ 7:45 PM
Location: Iona Pastoral Centre

About the Author:

Gerard Lovett is a retired member of An Garda Síochána and retired as a detective inspector in the Garda Special Branch in 2004. Since then, he was general secretary of the Garda Síochána Retired Members’ Association for seven years and was editor of their quarterly magazine Síocháin. He has written numerous articles on police history and has regularly given lectures to historical societies on both garda and RIC history, as well as famous historical murder cases.

Spike Island’s strategic location within the harbour meant it was used at times for defence and as a prison. Since the early 21st century the island has been developed as a heritage tourist attraction,^[4] with €5.5 million investment in exhibition and visitor spaces^[5] and accompanying tourism marketing.^[6] There were in excess of 81,000 visitors to the island during 2019, a 21% increase on 2018 numbers.^[7][8] Spike Island was named top European tourist attraction at the 2017 World Travel Awards.^[9]
Source: wikipedia

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