The Sons of Molly Maguire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sons of Molly Maguire write by Mark Bulik. This book was released on 2015-01-01. The Sons of Molly Maguire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An “incisive and original” history of the 19th-century Irish secret society that instigated America’s first labor wars in Pennsylvania Coal Country (Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy). A secret society of Irish peasant assassins, the Molly Maguires reemerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, organizing strikes, murdering mine bosses, and fighting the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve-year battle with coal companies marked the beginning of class warfare in America. But little has been written about the origins of this struggle or the peculiar rites, traditions, and culture of the Mollies. The Sons of Molly Maguire delves into the lost world of peasant Ireland to uncover the links between the folk justice of the Mollies and the folk drama of the Mummers—a group known in America today for their annual New Year’s parade in Philadelphia. The historic link not only explains much about Ireland’s Mollies—why the killers wore women’s clothing, why they struck around holidays—but also sheds new light on the Mollies’ re-emergence in Pennsylvania. When the Irish arrived in the anthracite coal region, they brought along their ethnic, religious, and political conflicts. Just before the Civil War, a secret society emerged, as did an especially political form of Mummery. Resurrected amid wartime strikes and conscription, the American Mollies would become a bastion of labor activism.
The Molly Maguires
The Molly Maguires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Molly Maguires write by Anthony Bimba. This book was released on 1970. The Molly Maguires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the 1879's a group of Pennsylvania coal miners struggled to secure their rights amidst a hostile group of mine owners and railroad owners who used unfair tactics which resulted in sending the miners to the gallows.
The Sons of Molly Maguire
The Sons of Molly Maguire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sons of Molly Maguire write by Mark Bulik. This book was released on 2015-01-01. The Sons of Molly Maguire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania’s hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strikes, murdered mine bosses, and fought the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve-year duel with all powerful coal companies marked the beginning of class warfare in America. But little has been written about the origins of this struggle and the folk culture that informed everything about the Mollies. A rare book about the birth of the secret society, The Sons of Molly Maguire delves into the lost world of peasant Ireland to uncover the astonishing links between the folk justice of the Mollies and the folk drama of the Mummers, who performed a holiday play that always ended in a mock killing. The link not only explains much about Ireland’s Molly Maguires—where the name came from, why the killers wore women’s clothing, why they struck around holidays—but also sheds new light on the Mollies’ re-emergence in Pennsylvania. The book follows the Irish to the anthracite region, which was transformed into another Ulster by ethnic, religious, political, and economic conflicts. It charts the rise there of an Irish secret society and a particularly political form of Mummery just before the Civil War, shows why Molly violence was resurrected amid wartime strikes and conscription, and explores how the cradle of the American Mollies became a bastion of later labor activism. Combining sweeping history with an intensely local focus, The Sons of Molly Maguire is the captivating story of when, where, how, and why the first of America’s labor wars began.
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Making Sense of the Molly Maguires write by Kevin Kenny. This book was released on 1998. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A group of 20 Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the "Molly Maguires", were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland and explaining the growth of a particular structure of meaning.
A Molly Maguire Story
A Molly Maguire Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Molly Maguire Story write by Patrick H. Campbell. This book was released on 2015-08-03. A Molly Maguire Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. On June 21, 1877, ten Irish-Americans were executed in the mining areas of Pennsylvania. All were accused of being members of a terror-ist group called the Molly Maguires, and all were convicted of planning and carrying out the murder of a number of mining officials. Ten more Irish-Americans were executed in Pennsylvania in the next 18 months on the same charges. One of the men executed on June 21, 1877, was Alexander Campbell, grand-uncle of the author. The Molly Maguire executions generated a great deal of contro-versy in Pennsylvania from the 1870s to the present, with Irish-Americans claiming the Mollies were framed by the mine owners, while some other ethnic. groups believe that they were guilty as charged and deserved the punishment they received. The author first heard about the execution of his grand-uncle back in the late 1940s in Dungloe, County Donegal, Ireland, and in the early 1970s, while living in New Jersey, began a fifteen year investiga-tion into the entire Molly Maguire controversy in order to determine if Alexander Campbell was guilty or innocent. A Molly Maguire Story is an account of that investigation."
