Spike Island Archaeologists Become Cork Rebels! Tuesday 30th July 2013, Spike Island Facscintating research into the lives of convicts deterred on Spike Island in the 19th century has been carefully unearthed by a team of international and local student archaeologists. For the past number of weeks the team, under the guidance of Dr Barra O’Donnabhain, Department of Archaeology UCC, has been excavating …