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