Executed men remembered in London
• Michael Barrett and Patrick O'Donnell commemoration » Joe Dwyer Republicans in London assembled in late May to lay wreaths and remember two executed patriots; the falsely accused Fenian Michael Barrett - executed in 1868 - and the ‘Invincible avenger’ Patrick O’Donnell - executed in 1883. Both patriots lie in a mass grave, in City of London Cemetery, containing the excavated mortal remains of those executed in the historic Newgate Prison. “Lynch-lawed and on the spot” Michael Barrett was born in the Ederney, Co. Fermanagh, in 1841. As a young man, in search of work, he mo...
Source: anphoblacht.com