Main Oration. 'We gather here today to remember with great pride and to commemorate three brave Fenians, William Allen, Michael Larkin and Michael O’Brien better known as the Manchester Martyrs. These three were innocent men that were victims of the British state wanting to send a message of deterrence to all those who make a stand against their wrong doings. a prison van was transporting two senior members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, as the prison van progressed up Hyde Road, Bellevue it was ambushed at the railway bridge by a group of Fenians, a gallant act that allowed the two senior members to escape, never to be recaptured. After the ambush 29 Irish people were arrested, but only three of all who were arrested were to suffer the full extent of the British Governments evilness, these three men who came to be known as the Manchester martyrs, they were scapegoats, they were used to take the attention away from the major flaws in the British legal system, the...