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6 unusual facts about Manchester Martyrs


Ardwick

-- use "executed" because two of the hangings were not successful; one was shot dead while the other took an hour to die -->The men are referred to by their supporters as the so-called "Manchester Martyrs".

Castlegregory

Castlegregory GAA Club was first known as Castlegregory Allen, named after William Allen, one of the Manchester Martyrs.

Joseph Ivess

Ivess probably found employment rapidly as the manager of the New Zealand Celt, the Irish Catholic Party's newspaper whose proprietor John Manning was charged with seditious libel for erecting a memorial to the Fenian martyrs of Manchester in the Hokitika Cemetery.

Manchester Martyrs

On 18 September 1867, Kelly and Deasy were being transferred from the courthouse to Belle Vue Gaol on Hyde Road, Gorton.

Monuments erected in honour of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien stand in Limerick, Kilrush (County Clare), Clonmel (County Tipperary), Birr (County Offaly), Ennis (County Clare), Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin), and in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.

William Calcraft

On 22 November 1867 he officiated at the public execution of William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien, who became known as the Manchester Martyrs.


Hugh Delargy

He was a member of the Anti-Partition of Ireland League and participated in the Manchester Martyrs commemoration in Manchester in 1949 which was addressed by Éamon de Valera.


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