Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Name: Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
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ISBN: 9780195116311

ISBN-10: 0195116313

ISBN-13: 9780195116311

Edition: 1998

Authors: Kevin Kenny

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Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to 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 the hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, author Kevin Kenny 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…

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List price: $34.99
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/12/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 0.91" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Abbreviations Used in Footnotes


Introduction



Whiteboys, Ribbonmen, and Molly Maguires



The World of Anthracite



Enter the Molly Maguires



The Rise of a Labor Movement



The Reading Railroad Takes Control



The Return of the Molly Maguires



Rough Justice



The Molly Maguires on Trial


Epilogue


Conclusion



Biographical Data on the Molly Maguires



Geographical. Analysis of the Surnames of the Molly Maguires



The Donegal and North-central Irish in the Anthracite Region



Coffin Notices



Two """"Molly Maguire"""" Ballads


Bibliography


Index