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Molly Maguires - Wikipedia The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania
The Legend of the Molly Maguires | Pennsylvania Center for the Book Molly Maguire, an Irish widow, in the 1840s, protested against English landlords who tried to steal peoples land She headed a group called the “Anti-landlord Agitators” who were best known for getting in bare knuckle fights with their landlords in order to maintain their land and their dignity
Who Were the Molly Maguires? - HISTORY In the latter half of the 19th century, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, was an area rife with violence Between 1861 and 1875, a series of violent assaults, arsons and murders was blamed on a
The Molly Maguires (1970) - IMDb The Molly Maguires: Directed by Martin Ritt With Richard Harris, Sean Connery, Samantha Eggar, Frank Finlay In 1876 Pennsylvania, a group of Irish immigrant coal miners begin to retaliate against the cruelty of their work environment
Molly Maguires | Irish Immigrants, Coal Miners, Secret Society - Britannica Molly Maguires, secret organization of coal miners supposedly responsible for acts of terrorism in the coalfields of Pennsylvania and West Virginia, U S , in the period from 1862 to 1876 The group named itself after a widow who led a group of Irish antilandlord agitators in the 1840s
The Molly Maguire Executions: Building the Gallows in Pottsville | 1877 A contemporary depiction of the “Molly Maguires” walking to the gallows at Pottsville – June 1877 Evidence was largely based on testimony from James McParlan, a Pinkerton detective who infiltrated the group, leading many historians (and many in the region at the time) to question whether the executions were justice or retribution against
Pennsylvania State Archives - Molly Maguires Records at the Pennsylvania State Archives concerning the Molly Maguires fall under two main categories The Record Groups contain government records relating to the incident, while Manuscript Groups contain primarily personal papers and photos that were acquired from private donors
The Molly Maguires: Secret and Murderous - U-S-History. com The Molly Maguires were a secret organization of coal miners in the anthracite regions of eastern Pennsylvania and West Virginia Also known as the "Buckshots," "Sleepers," and "White Boys," the name "Molly Maguires"was taken from a famous widow who had headed a tenant protest in Ireland in the 1840s
Molly Maguires - Encyclopedia. com The Molly Maguires were a group of Irish mine workers who terrorized the anthracite region of Pennsylvania from about 1865 until a series of sensational murder trials between 1875 and 1877 The Molly Maguires was neither an ordered secret society nor a vast conspiracy
The Molly Maguires - The Irish Story The Molly Maguires story is a fascinating insight into both Irish – American culture in the 19th century and America’s often troubled and brutal labour history The Mollies were a secret society based among the Irish coal miners in the anthracite fields of northern Pennsylvania in the 1860s and 1870s