Crime Magazine is about true crime: organized crime, celebrity
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books, crime films and crime studies. On December 13, 1867,
Irish terrorist, Michael Barrett plants a bomb at Clerkenwell
Prison in London in an attempt to free fellow Irish political
prisoners. The bombing killed 12 bystanders and severely injured
many more. Barrett had positioned the bomb in a wheelbarrow
outside the external wall of of the jail in the belief that it
would bring down the prison wall and allow the prisoners to
escape. Michael Barrett was born in 1841 and at the age of 27 he
joined the Fenians, which, in the 1860s, was a political
movement that dominated Irish politics and defied the Catholic
Church and middle-class nationalists who advocated milder
approaches. Thousands of Irishmen in both Ireland and Britain
were recruited into its ranks. The Clerkenwell bombing was the
most infamous action carried out by the Fenians