Islands of darkness: Ireland’s ‘Alcatraz’ and the growth of dark tourism
By Gillian O’Brien, Reader in Modern Irish History, Liverpool John Moores University, writing for The Conversation. Spike Island — the former fortress and prison off the coast of County Cork in Ireland — has been named Europe’s leading tourist attraction at the World Travel Awards. The island beat off competition from Buckingham Palace, the Eiffel Tower and Rome’s Colosseum […]
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