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The Sons of Molly Maguire - The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War (Paperback)
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The Sons of Molly Maguire - The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War (Paperback)
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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.
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