The Dock and the Scaffold

The following book is intended to educate the readers about the events surrounding a group of individuals referred to as the Manchester Martyrs, which is a term used by Irish nationalists to these three men—William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O'Brien. They were executed following their conviction of murder in 1867 after an attack on a police van in Manchester, England, in which a police officer was accidentally shot dead, an incident that was known at the time as the Manchester Outrages.