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Making Sense of the Molly Maguires Book

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 sixteen men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story tracing the origins of the group.Read More

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    Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on hostile descriptions of their contemporaries.

    Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires examines the ideology behind contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside.

    Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor and immigration.

  • 0195116313
  • 9780195116311
  • Kevin Kenny
  • 4 June 1998
  • OUP USA
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 368
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