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Sean Bourke
Sean Aloyisious Bourke (1934–1982) was a petty criminal from Limerick who became internationally famous when he arranged the prison escape of the British spy George Blake in October 1966, helped by Michael Randle and Pat Pottle.〔Kevin O'Connor, Blake and Bourke and The End of Empires, ISBN 0-9535697-3-X, 2003〕〔Illtyd Harrington, (Forget the train robbers, this was the great escape ), Camden New Journal, 29 May 2003 – while this article provides some useful details, several dates have been transcribed incorrectly〕〔(Patrick Pottle ), Daily Telegraph, 4 October 2000〕〔Richard Norton-Taylor, (Pat Pottle ), The Guardian, 3 October 2000〕〔Nick Cohen, (A jailbreak out of an Ealing comedy ), New Statesman, 9 October 2000〕〔Michael Randle and Pat Pottle, The Blake Escape: How We Freed George Blake – and Why, ISBN 0-245-54781-9, 1989〕〔Kieran Fagan, (Escape of the century – or farce? ), Irish Times, 5 May 2003〕 Blake had been convicted in 1961 of spying for the Soviet Union. Their motives for helping Blake to escape were their belief that his 42-year sentence was "inhuman" and a personal liking of Blake.
==Life==
He was born in Limerick into a large family. Actor Richard Harris was his second cousin and poet Desmond O'Grady was his first cousin. As a boy of 12, Bourke was sentenced to three years in Daingean reformatory in October 1947 for stealing bananas from a lorry.〔Michael Byrne, (Daingean Reformatory ), Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society, 9 January 2007〕 Subsequently, he trained as a bricklayer, but was frequently in trouble with the law, in part due to his alcoholism. Having moved to Britain, in 1961 he was convicted of sending an explosive device through the post to a Detective Constable Michael Sheldon, against whom he bore a grudge. The bomb exploded, but caused no injury.〔Michael Mok, "The Irish 'Who' in a British Whodunnit", ''Life'', 24 Jan 1969, pp.59–60〕 He was sentenced to seven years in prison.〔Rosamund M. Thomas, ''Espionage and Secrecy: The Official Secrets Acts 1911–1989 of the United Kingdom'', Taylor & Francis, 1991 p.221.〕 While in Wormwood Scrubs prison in London, he founded and edited the prison magazine, ''New Horizon''.〔 In this role he met George Blake, who wrote contributions for the magazine. Bourke also met anti-nuclear campaigners Randle and Pottle in the prison.〔Simon Gray, Cell Mates, 1995.〕
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