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Article: Molly Maguires
Dictionary of American History;      447 words ...MOLLY MAGUIRES MOLLY MAGUIRES. 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 ...

Article: Follow the Footsteps of the Molly Maguires.
Leisure & Travel Week;  March 28, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... state, Pennsylvania was home to the Molly Maguires - a secret society that operated in ... The heritage of Irish miners and the Molly Maguires can be traced like an anthracite seam ... Economic Development. "The story of the Molly Maguires is tangible today in places like the ...

Article: 'The Molly Maguires' to debut.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA);  April 20, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... producer of the new musical "The Molly Maguires," he'll tell you one of the lead ... Catholic mine workers, known as the Molly Maguires, who struggled against the harsh conditions ... who eventually hopes to take "The Molly Maguires" to the Great White Way. But, first ...

Article: OPINION: Molly Maguires would have embraced Burke.
Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA);  April 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Kirby Center the musical, "The Molly Maguires." He perhaps exorcised some old demons ... And along the way those tales of the Molly Maguires, who often took justice into their ... musical and honor his courage. And the Molly Maguires, you may be sure, accepted him as ...

Article: Pardon sought in 1871 killing linked to Molly ...
AP Worldstream;  January 14, 2006 ;     591 words ... ... century secret society known as the Molly Maguires _ insisted that he never knew Powell ... signature. Twenty men identified as Molly Maguires were hanged in Pennsylvania in the ... famine. Between 1862 and 1875, the Molly Maguires fought other ethnic gangs and the growing ...

Article: Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
Business History Review;  July 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ...Making Sense of the Molly Maguires. By Kevin Kenny New York: Oxford University Press, 1998 ... more frequently focused their attention on the story of the Molly Maguires. That tale has tended to obscure more than elucidate, cast ...

Article: Anthracite Lads.(Anthracite Lads: A True Story of the Fables ...
Small Press Bookwatch;  December 1, 2005 ;     504 words ... ... 1883658470 $16.95 Anthracite Lads: A True Story of the Fables Molly Maguires is a unique book that strives to reexamine a facet of American ... gone by, a group of Irish coal miners were dubbed the "Molly Maguires", and labeled "Red-Handed Murderers" by the press ...