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The Manchester Martyrs were Irish nationalists executed for killing a policeman during a prison escape. William O'Mera Allen, Michael Larkin, and William O'Brien were hanged in Manchester, England on November 23, 1867. These men were caught having participated in the rescue of two officers in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, Colonel Thomas J. Kelly and Captain Timothy Deasy. The rescue took place on the borders of West Gorton and Ardwick, to the immediate southeast of Manchester City Centre. (Extracted from the site of Wikipedia.)
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Frederick Douglass (born Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey, February 14, 1818 - February 20, 1895) was an American abolitionist, editor, orator, author, statesman and reformer. Called "The Sage of Anacostia" and "The Lion of Anacostia", Douglass is one of the most prominent figures in African-American history and United States history. In 1872, Douglass was nominated as the vice presidential candidate on the Equal Rights Party ticket with Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for President of the United States.
He was a firm believer in the equality of all people, whether black, woman, Native American, or recent immigrant. He was fond of saying, "I would unite with anybody to do right and with nobody to do wrong." (Extracted from the site of Wiikipedia.)
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Maghaberry is a modern high security prison housing adult male long term sentenced and remand prisoners, in both separated and integrated conditions with capacity of 745 in single cell accommodation and 939 staff. Immigration detainees are accommodated in the Prison's Belfast facility. Maghaberry has two principal objectives: to service the courts and to provide programmes that allow prisoners the opportunity to develop skills to assist in their preparation for release into the community. Maghaberry Prison is located at Old Road, Ballinderry Upper LISBURN BT28 2PT.
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Sands was a Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteer and member of the United Kingdom Parliament who died on hunger strike in HM Prison Maze (also known as Long Kesh) for the possession of firearms. He was the leader of the 1981 Hunger Strike, in which Irish Republican prisoners were seeking to regain status as political prisoners, and had been elected as a member of the United Kingdom Parliament as an Anti H-Block/Armagh Political Prisoner candidate during his fast. His death resulted in a new surge of IRA recruitment and activity. The international media coverage sparked a wave of support and sympathy around the world for Sands, the other hunger strikers, and the republican movement in general, although it also attracted criticism. (Extracted from the site of Wikipedia.)
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Cromwell was an English military and political leader best known for his involvement in making England into a republican Commonwealth and for his later role as Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland. He was one of the commanders of the New Model Army which defeated the royalists in the English Civil War. After the execution of King Charles I in 1649, Cromwell dominated the short-lived Commonwealth of England, conquered Ireland and Scotland, and ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 until his death in 1658.
Cromwell has been a very controversial figure in the history of the British Isles - a regicidal dictator to some historians (such as David Hume and Christopher Hill) and a hero of liberty to others (such as Thomas Carlyle and Samuel Rawson Gardiner). In Britain he was elected as one of the Top 10 Britons of all time in a 2002 BBC poll. His measures against Irish Catholics have been characterized by some historians as genocidal or near-genocidal, and in Ireland itself he is widely hated. (Extracted from the site of Wikipedia.)
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Jackie Coulter (born 1912, Whiteabbey; died 1981) is a former Northern Irish footballer. He played for a number of intermediate clubs before signing for Belfast Celtic as a seventeen year-old. At Celtic Park he developed into one of the finest players in the Irish League, usually starring at inside-left or on the left-wing. His finest performance in the hooped jersey was perhaps in the 1930 City Cup deciding play-off. Slotting in at centre-forward, Coulter scored a hat-trick to take the trophy back to Celtic Park. More honors came his way in the shape of the further City Cups, the Belfast Charities Cup and finally in 1933, the Irish League Championship. (Extracted from the site of Wikipedia.)
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