On the 153rd Anniversary Representatives from the Gaughan Stagg Cumann (32CSM), Basque Separatist Movement and 161Crew Manchester came together to commemorate, the Manchester Martyrs William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien. All three men were hanged by the British state, on November 23, 1867 for the execution of a Brett, a police officer in Manchester. Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien, were sentenced to death by hanging and cried "God save Ireland" from the dock. Two other men Maguire and O’Meagher Conlon, who had been sentenced to hang were let off almost instantly, leaving the three to be executed. There was no evidence that any of the men shot Brett, only that they had been present. The men were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a revolutionary organisation dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland. It is right and fitting that these innocent men are remembered. They were selected and executed on the basis of their political beliefs and r...