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Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicted in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly.. The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool, and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania.
The Molly Maguires were generally seen, outside their circle of supporters, as murderers, terrorists, and foreign agitators. [6] In 1877, along with three other men (Michael Doyle, John Donahue and Edward Kelly), Campbell was convicted of the murders of John P. Jones and Morgan Powell, [1] but he admitted to only being an accessory. [7]
The Molly Maguires is a 1970 American historical drama film directed by Martin Ritt, starring Sean Connery and Richard Harris. [2] It is based on the 1964 book Lament for the Molly Maguires by Arthur H. Lewis.
Ellen's sister, Mary Ann, was married to the John "Black Jack" Kehoe, who history dubbed "The King of the Molly Maguires". [ 39 ] In recent years, documents and communications have emerged between Franklin Gowen, Allan Pinkerton, and the captain of the Coal and Iron Police, Captain Linden, which strongly suggest that this tragic event was not ...
Reports of McParland's success against the Molly Maguires came to the attention of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes detective fiction. Conan Doyle wrote McParland into The Valley of Fear, creating an encounter between the fictional Sherlock Holmes, and a character whose history loosely recalled McParland's experiences with the Molly Maguires.
During the late 1860s and early 1870s many of the lodges of the order in Pennsylvania were infiltrated by the Molly Maguires. However the Molly Maguires and their criminal activities were condemned at the 1876 national convention of the AOH [23] and the order was reorganised in the Pennsylvania coal areas. [24]
The building is most notable as the jail where a number of suspected "Molly Maguires" were imprisoned while awaiting trial in 1875–1876 and subsequently hanged. [2] [3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on November 8, 1974. [1] It is located in the Old Mauch Chunk Historic District.
The union was organized in an area of alleged [2] Molly Maguires activity. [3] Strikes were called in 1868, 1869, and 1871. [4] Two unarmed strikers were shot and killed in Scranton during the 1871 strike by mine owners' guards.