IE LIVE NEWS SEAN O'RIORDAN STORY 14/10/2021. Tom O'Neill, Spike Island, (left) with his book, Spike Island's Republican Prisoners 1921, and Damien Coughlan with a photograph of his greatgrandfather, Pat Coughlan, and the page in Patrick Tobin's autograph book from Spike in 1921 featuring an autographed poem written by Pat. Picture Denis Minihane.