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The Clerkenwell explosion, also known as the Clerkenwell Outrage, was a bombing attack carried out by the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB) in London on 13 December 1867. Members of the IRB, who were nicknamed " Fenians ", exploded a bomb to try to free a member of their group who was being held on remand at Clerkenwell Prison .
Barrett was the last man to be publicly hanged in England, for his part in the Clerkenwell explosion in December 1867. [1] The bombing killed 12 bystanders and severely injured many more. Barrett was arrested with several others in a wide-ranging sweep of sympathisers with the Irish Republican cause and was the only one found guilty.
The explosion caused the death of twelve people, and injured one hundred and twenty others. The Clerkenwell Outrage , for which Fenian Michael Barrett would suffer the death penalty, powerfully influenced William Ewart Gladstone in deciding that the Anglican Church of Ireland should be disestablished as a concession to Irish disaffection.
All Ireland Anti-Partition League; Anti H-Block; Aontacht Éireann; Clann na Poblachta; Clann Éireann; Communist Party of Ireland (Marxist–Leninist) Córas na Poblachta
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At this time it was renamed the Clerkenwell House of Detention, also known as Clerkenwell Prison. It was the site of a notorious bomb outrage, the Clerkenwell explosion in 1867. It should not be confused with the New Gaol, another name sometimes applied to Horsemonger Lane Gaol in Southwark , south London.