Michael Barrett: The Last Man Hanged in Britain
Red Room · Jenny Claffey
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Show Notes
An Irish Fenian bombing in Victorian London led to mass panic, a controversial trial, and the execution of Michael Barrett., who would become the last man hanged in Britain.
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Further Reading / Sources
"The Irish invasion": how the Irish Famine changed Scotland
t18680406-412 | The Proceedings of the Old Bailey
https://www.theirishstory.com/category/history/irish-history/
https://www.irishdemocrat.co.uk/features/michael-barrett/
Executed men remembered in London | An Phoblacht
Michael Barrett (1841-1868) - The forgotten Fenian from Fermanagh: By Fr Joe McVeigh | An Phoblacht
Irish Republicanism in Scotland, 1858–1916: Fenians in exile – History Ireland
Michael Barrett: a Fenian remembered
Barrett, Michael | Dictionary of Irish Biography
On This Day: The Clerkenwell Outrage, 13th December, 1867 – Turbulent Isles
150 years ago today, a Fenian became the last person to be publicly executed in England
Burke, Ricard O'Sullivan | Dictionary of Irish Biography
The Times Report of the Last Public Hanging in England
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