Spike Island exhibition marks 110 years since Aud gun-running mission linked to Easter Rising

Descendants of the Aud crew have contributed photographs and correspondence to the new Spike Island exhibition

German ship the Aud. File picture

The grandson of one of the German crew members captured while attempting to smuggle arms to the IRA will be a special guest at a new exhibition on Spike Island commemorating the 110th anniversary of the event.

Fred Schmitz is travelling from New York with his family to visit the exhibition next Monday, June 15, which focuses on the history of the Aud and how his grandfather and the rest of the crew, under the command of Captain Karl Spindler, were interned on the island.