• Michael Barrett (1841 – 26 May 1868) was an Irish activist. He was a member of the Fenians. Barrett was the last man to be publicly hanged in England...
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  • American cinematographer Michael Barrett (Fenian) (1841–1868), hanged for his alleged role in the Clerkenwell bombing Michael Barrett (physician) (1816–1887)...
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    one hundred and twenty others. The Clerkenwell Outrage, for which Fenian Michael Barrett would suffer the death penalty, powerfully influenced William Ewart...
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    Victorian Hangings: Michael Barrett, truecrimelibrary.com The Fenian Prisoners at the Bow Street Police Court, Museum of London Fenian explosion at Clerkenwell...
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    initially the Fenian Brotherhood, but from the 1870s it was Clan na Gael. The members of both wings of the movement are often referred to as "Fenians". The IRB...
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    is the only speech which it is proper to make over the grave of a dead Fenian." Said by Collins at the funeral of Thomas Ashe in Glasnevin Cemetery on...
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  • the United States in the late 19th and 20th centuries, successor to the Fenian Brotherhood and a sister organization to the Irish Republican Brotherhood...
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  • spends much of the year imprisoned in Ireland. 26 May – Michael Barrett, member of the Fenians, hanged outside the walls of Newgate Prison in London for...
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    instigated by members of the Fenian Society in an attempt to aid the escape of Ricard O'Sullivan Burke, an arms supplier to the Fenians. The blast killed twelve...
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    Irishmen in World War I. Dublin: O'Brien. p. 13. "Ireland – The rise of Fenianism". Encyclopedia Britannica. Archived from the original on 3 May 2020. Retrieved...
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    held in Dublin in October 1917, Éamon de Valera was elected president, Michael Collins Director for Organisation and Cathal Brugha Chairman of the Resident...
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  • (1814–1902), Irish Fenian, transported to New South Wales in 1838 for desertion Thomas McCarthy Fennell (1841–1914), Irish Fenian, transported to Western...
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    continued to operate in parallel with those of the provisional authority. Michael Collins was designated as Chairman of the Provisional Government, in theory...
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  • Ashe, President of the Irish Republican Brotherhood from 1916 to 1917 Michael Barrett Piaras Béaslaí James Bermingham Gerald Boland Harry Boland James Boland...
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    carried out the last public execution in the UK, when he hanged the Fenian Michael Barrett in front of Newgate Prison on 26 May 1868 for his part in the 1867...
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    quell civil unrest during the Tithe War, the Young Irelander Rebellion, the Fenian Rising, the Land War, and the Irish revolutionary period. During the Irish...
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  • original on 20 December 2017. Retrieved 15 December 2018. "Police outlaw 'fenians and huns'". BBC. 24 January 2008. Archived from the original on 17 October...
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    charged at the Old Bailey on 20 April 1868, only Michael Barrett was found guilty (on 27 April): he was a Fenian transported from Scotland whose name had been...
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    Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 341. Kee, Robert The Bold Fenian Men, 1976, P. 204 Tierney, Michael, Eoin MacNeill, 1980, p.141 Ruth Dudley Edwards, Patrick...
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    Mackenzie Bowell (category Canadian Knights Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George)
    to Captain in command of No. 1 Company, 15th Battalion and fought in the Fenian Raids of 1866, serving at Prescott and being awarded the Canada General...
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    looked the other way as Irish Catholic "Fenians" plotted and even attempted an invasion of Canada. The Fenians proved a failure,[clarification needed]...
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    public execution in Britain on 26 May 1868, when he hanged the Fenian Michael Barrett in front of Newgate Prison for his part in the Clerkenwell Outrage...
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  • Michael (1985). Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland. Manchester University Press. ISBN 978-0-7190-1797-1. Gallagher, Michael; Marsh, Michael...
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    Union 1800 Irish rebellion of 1803 Young Ireland rebellion Fenian Rising Fenian raids Fenian dynamite campaign Easter Rising 1918 general election Irish...
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    Factory. On the way to this destination the battalion encountered the veteran Fenian, John MacBride, who on the spot joined the battalion as second-in-command...
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    court-martial's death sentence to life imprisonment.: 93  De Valera had no Fenian family or personal background and his MI5 file in 1916 was very slim, detailing...
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    anti-treaty IRA: Joe McKelvey, Rory O'Connor, Liam Mellows and Richard Barrett were executed by firing squad (8 December 1922). In addition, IRA men around...
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  • Belfast: Bloomfield. p. 163. ISBN 978-1-5272-2047-8. "PATRIOT GAME - Irish Fenian Songs, Lyrics, Free MP3s, Chords, Sheet Music, Tab". www.thebards.net. Retrieved...
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    AKM and M16 rifles; DShK heavy machine guns; LPO-50 flamethrowers; and Barrett M90 sniper rifles. The IRA also used a variety of bombs during its armed...
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    Haw, the churchyard was cleared in 1892 St Peter, Paul's Wharf Michael Barrett, a Fenian Sir George Barclay, British diplomat Robert Bentley and Charles...
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