Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Making Sense of the Molly Maguires PDF Author: Kevin Kenny
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195116311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Book Description
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 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland and explaining the growth of a particular structure of meaning.