One of my favorite subject since reading the book"Lament for the Molly Maguires" many, many years ago. Nicely done piece of work, Alexander, nicely done.
My dad grew up in a town by the name of Mahanoy City which is in the coal region of Pennsylvania, and I remember getting together with dad and my uncle and we would drive around the coal region of Pennsylvania and my dad and uncle would always tell stories of the Molly Maguires. The stories always amazed me. Some of the stories my dad and uncle would tell me were actually in this video. The one story that I was never told was about the hand print on the wall of cell #17 in the prison before the Molly Maguire was hanged. I thought that was pretty cool. This video was well done.
The Molly Maguires that were hung in Pottsville & Jim Thorpe were murdered after their trial in a kangaroo court. They were the ancestor of the United Mine Workers Union & the very first Civil Rights group in the United States. My paternal grandfathers education ended when he was 7 in 1900. He was a breaker boy, he had no choice but to work. At age 12 just before the Child Labor Law of 1905 went into effect, my paternal grandfather was whipped right across his back, his back was scared. The mining companies could do what ever they damned well please to the miners, their families and the breaker boys.
So were they simply anarchists that were treated like terrorists? All info portray the Molly Macguires as cheap thugs but I get the feeling that's not the real story.
Good Job. I grew up in the Anthracite region and grew up on stories about the Mollies. You made a fair and accurate report. Hope it graded well in class.
Why pay a father seven dollars a week when one can conveniently play a child two dollars a week. Consequently, a father would be replaced in the work place by his children. For a family to survive the remaining children would also be employed to offset and balance the father’s loss of income. The children became wage-earners in some families. Parents would purchase work permits which circumvented laws that regulated the minimum age for employment. Tragically, children as young as five years were issued permits to work. Receiving an education was considered a ‘waste of time’ by some uneducated parents as well as employers. In the clothing mills of the south, every fourth employee was between the ages of 10 and 15. It is heart-rending to discover that many of those children employed in southern mills were even younger. According to the census of 1900, most of the 25,000 boys employed in the mines and quarries were in Pennsylvania. In 1911, there were 2 million children under the age of 16 in the American workforce. In the anthracite coal industry children worked as breaker boys, separating coal from slag, mule drivers, runners, and gate tenders. In 1910, little girls worked at dangerous machines knitting stockings for long hours in poorly lighted, lint filled textile mills. Thousands of blowers’ assistants were employed in the glass making industry. The children of America worked as sweepers, spinners, and doffers in the textile mills. Children worked in canneries and farms beside their parents. ‘Little merchants,’ hawked produce and sold an assortment of items on the streets of American towns and cities. Children worked six days a week from six in the morning till eight o’clock at night. There was neither time for education nor play but only time to eat and sleep after returning home. Children were employed working in mines, quarries, textile mills, canneries, farms, the glass industry, and virtually every field of employment. Small hands enabled breaker boys in the mines to swiftly sort and size coal in collieries. Employers threatened children to work harder or lose their jobs. “Haggard, hungry, and faint after the night’s work…three cents an hour she got for her surrender of sleep and strength, play and study…” wrote American poet Edwin Markham (1852 - 1940).
A just read a book about coal, randomly selected from my local library in Wyomissing, PA. The author mentioned the Molly McGuires. Now I am fascinated by this topic.
I'm an American lad born and raised in Harrisburg Pennsylvania and am descended of Irish immigrants who came here to Pennsylvania during the Famine in Ireland 🇮🇪. I also have Scottish and German ancestors who also emigrated here to Pennsylvania as well and I thank you sincerely for this story!! I am fiercely proud of my Irish Catholic heritage who came to America to rid themselves of oppression and bigotry. God bless the United States of America 🇺🇸 💪
1:21. the woman in the background middle is my great grandmother, Jane Francis McLaughlin Sr. I would recognize her face anywhere, she looks just like my grandmother. She lived until 1971 at the age of 79.
A friend of mine's grandfather or great grandfather, don't remember which had to leave Ireland, for violating the game laws. "for shooting landlords out of season" that is his line.
9 years later, and I watched your documentary, for the first time. It was impressive & interesting. I live a few blocks from the Pottsville Jail. I was just trying to tell the story to someone, who is from Philly, today. They have never heard about The Molly Maguires. Even told them about the "Handprint". I had relatives who worked in the coal mines, years ago. Some were of German Descent & some were of Ukrainian Descent. Pottsville had a Ancient Order of Hibernians, up until a few years ago. I sure hope you got an A++,when you did this. Maybe you should do a sequel on it?! Ha
What interested a boy named “Alex Petyerak” in this sordid bit of Irish-American history? Maybe you’re half Irish (like me) or you just enjoyed the movie with Sean Connery and Richard Harris. (The former was of half Irish-Catholic heritage while the latter came from a devoutly Irish-Catholic family, so good choices for their roles.) Anyway, young man, I agree with another commenter. This is very impressive for a seventh grader! You even answered a question that has puzzled me for some time. Why would people work in these miserable circumstances and why remain for long? Thanks for posting this. It’s most enlightening. Best of good fortune to you in your future studies and life!
I'm writing a paper on secret societies, and I ended up choosing the Molly Maguires. This has helped so much. If you are still reading the comments, thank you.
"No special reason" for hating the Irish?! There was a very particular reason. The English, especially those Puritans who went to America, abhorred Catholicism since the days of the Armada, because they saw Catholics as having allegiance to a foreign power (the Pope) rather than to England or the US. This feeling persisted up through JFK's election--he had to publically swear his primary loyalty to the US.
Maybe a poor wording, but here's how I took it: The English, like most powerful groups, picked a reason to hate. Nothing special, but they made it that way. The Irish had land and the British throne and royalty felt entitled to it. So, they fomented pre-existing religious bigotry, just as Hitler later did to the Jewish people and Trump tried to do for, well, pretty much anyone who disagreed with him. Numerous other examples exist from the Crusades, the Inquisitions in Spain, slavery of Africans. Also, many of the English hated the Irish. Period. They were viewed as an inferior race the way Africans were and still are. I'm sorry this happened. To Catholic people or otherwise. The Catholic and Protestant people have been at war for centuries, with decreasing frequency thankfully. Scots-Irish ancestors of my great aunt were non-conforming to English rule. And left. The Brits took first and asked questions later. Wait, they didn't ask. They took. From everyone.
Comparing Trump to the English and Hitler is beyond retarded. Minorities were more successful under him than any other president. You can't even come within the same universe of arguing the other two did that for who they oppressed
7th grade??? Alex, great job! Well-researched. Thank you very much for sharing this. Historical note for your next documentary: Alec Campbell owned a bar in Summit Hill called "The Emerald House(i think?)" & the trial transcripts basically indicated that he was innocent of any "Molly" crimes.
Great work Alex. The Irish were always treated badly in America treated worse than the blacks. Since Cromwell forcibly enslaved 50,000 Irish and brought them to the New World. They lived in horrific conditions and had high mortality rates. Films like THE MOLLY MAGUIRES and Scorsese's GANGS OF NEW YORK showed how they were persecuted. The American govt apologized to Native Americans and Afro-Americans but they should be made to apologize to the Irish-American community for how they treated their ancestors. A book which mirrors The Molly Maguires Is John Burrowes IRISH : SAGA OF A NATION AND A RACE although it is about the Irish in Scotland it mirrors what went on in North America.
Good doc. for a 7th grader. i suggest you read a little more into this topic when you get older and get a better understanding of what truly happened, as i did. they were unjustly hanged.
As someone whose family dug coal in the Rhonda Valley in Wales, we came to Pa to dig coal here. I grew up in a little coal mining town in Somerset County. I am outraged that the video's narrator called the Molly Maguires "terrorists." If you knew the real story of being a coal miner during those times and have heard the old miners tell their story, you would be ashamed of your self for using the word terrorists. I knew John Kehoes grandson, so I heard first hand accounts of the Mollys. Just let me tell you one thing. If you would have come in the 60s when I was growing up, to our little coal towns to meet Jack Kehoe and old time miners and then had the audacity to call the Mollys 'terrorists,' well, let's just say, it would not have been pretty! Although coal miners and their families back then were treated like lessers and subjected to ridicule and prejudice, there is no way in hell we would stand having our kin who fought for the UMW to be called terrorists! Shame on you.
My paternal great grand fathers and my grandfather were also working in these same mines during this time of the Molly Maguires. O’Donnells and McLaughlins My grandfather worked the mines in Scranton after the turn of century. My father would tell the stories of them being hung, told by his grandfather, which he passed down to me. Everyone’s gone now, so it’s all going to be just a memory sadly.
Children worked in dusty lint-filled rooms in the textile mills and coal mine tunnels laden with heavy coal dust particles. Those unfortunate children risked developing a variety of respiratory diseases. Children in the workplace faced various dangers to their health and safety without the protection of healthcare and insurance. In an attempt to increase productivity and save money, machines were made unsafe to operate when employers removed safety guards. Children suffered from respiratory diseases from pollutants in the air. The open furnaces of glass factories produced intense heat and glare. These conditions resulted in eye disorders, lung ailments and heat exhaustion from exposure to the heat of open furnaces. Consequently, nearly all children in the labor force were underdeveloped in weight, height and girth of chest. Dr. Elizabeth Shapleigh made the following declaration following her own personal observations: “A considerable number of these boys and girls die within the first two or three years after beginning to work. Thirty-six out of every hundred men and women in the mill die before or by the time they are twenty-five years of age.” Regrettably, child labor laws were weak and so was enforcement of those laws for there were no generally accepted standards. Disheartened at the sight of child laborers, Rabbi Steven Wise of New York retorted: “We [the United States] have laws that we find are no laws and we have enforcement that we find is no enforcement.” Working children had no time for an education at school. Alexander J. McKelway boldly declared that child labor would eventually lead to: “racial degeneracy, perpetual poverty, the enlargement of illiteracy, the destruction of democracy, the disintegration of the family, the increase of crime, the lowering of the wage scale, and the swelling of the army of the unemployed.” The reader is cordially invited to my blog to read more concerning Lewis Wickes Hine's crusade against child labor in America. liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com/2011/08/crusader-with-camera-lewis-wickes-hine.html
Well made shows how the Irish were victims of English ethnic cleansing to then escape to America to become paid slaves. A lot of bitterness is carried by the Irish.
You call them terrorists. Do you know realize what that means? In your own words these are people being STOLEN from, STARVED, and exterminated. With all do respect, how would you respond.
I found this mildly entertaining while i was eating a mango and my hands were too dirty to click on "History of the British Empire for Dummies" which turned out to be lame after i wshed my hands and watched it
Not a great documentary. Really leaves out a lot of critical information. The Molly Maguires did indeed have a very violent history. Hatred for Irish stemmed from the hundreds year old battles between the Catholics and Protestants. To say there was "no particular reason" is insanely naïve of history. I am Irish, I'd like the history to be told correctly.
Thank you for posting. I'm 64 yrs old and this is the first I've heard of the Molly McGuires. Well done, Alexander. 👍
I learned so much about the Maguires. Thanks to stumbling upon this town accidentally. And I love the history. Keep it alive.
Nice job, the interviews and historic footage, along with the traditional music very well done. Showing to my 8th grade social studies classes.
One of my favorite subject since reading the book"Lament for the Molly Maguires" many, many years ago.
Nicely done piece of work, Alexander, nicely done.
My dad grew up in a town by the name of Mahanoy City which is in the coal region of Pennsylvania, and I remember getting together with dad and my uncle and we would drive around the coal region of Pennsylvania and my dad and uncle would always tell stories of the Molly Maguires. The stories always amazed me. Some of the stories my dad and uncle would tell me were actually in this video. The one story that I was never told was about the hand print on the wall of cell #17 in the prison before the Molly Maguire was hanged. I thought that was pretty cool. This video was well done.
Rob the handprint is still there.....they paint over it....But it always comes back..
The Molly Maguires that were hung in Pottsville & Jim Thorpe were murdered after their trial in a kangaroo court. They were the ancestor of the United Mine Workers Union & the very first Civil Rights group in the United States. My paternal grandfathers education ended when he was 7 in 1900. He was a breaker boy, he had no choice but to work. At age 12 just before the Child Labor Law of 1905 went into effect, my paternal grandfather was whipped right across his back, his back was scared. The mining companies could do what ever they damned well please to the miners, their families and the breaker boys.
Thanks for sharing. Can you tell me more about the trials or direct me to any thing on it?
@@Kirbyjerk the trials were in Kangaroo Courts that were owned by the Mine companies.
So were they simply anarchists that were treated like terrorists? All info portray the Molly Macguires as cheap thugs but I get the feeling that's not the real story.
What an Ad from Lowes! Amazing! Genius!!! Had me bawling for a commercial! Great job who ever wrote that! Produced it! Directed it!
A seventh grade project? Alex, this is fantastic work . Take a bow, young man. This is an excellent job on this documentary.
Thank-you, wonderful video, ☘️☘️Cheers ,.. Love ya dearly! ❤️
Impressive doco; especially from a 7th grader! Great editing and content.
Great work, Alexander! You did a fine job of researching and presenting the controversial and historically challenging story of the Mollies.
Im a now 7th grader/ history buff so I learned a lot and I loved it! ^w^
Good Job. I grew up in the Anthracite region and grew up on stories about the Mollies. You made a fair and accurate report. Hope it graded well in class.
As an Irishman, I can live on potatoes forever, fried, baked, mashed....that and plenty of Guinness
My father was in a movie about them. He was just a member of the crowd thst stormed the bank in Mauch Chunk,, now Jim Thorpe
same with my uncle
This is an excellent video. I'm going to share this with my class.
Why pay a father seven dollars a week when one can conveniently play a child two dollars a week. Consequently, a father would be replaced in the work place by his children. For a family to survive the remaining children would also be employed to offset and balance the father’s loss of income. The children became wage-earners in some families. Parents would purchase work permits which circumvented laws that regulated the minimum age for employment. Tragically, children as young as five years were issued permits to work. Receiving an education was considered a ‘waste of time’ by some uneducated parents as well as employers. In the clothing mills of the south, every fourth employee was between the ages of 10 and 15. It is heart-rending to discover that many of those children employed in southern mills were even younger.
According to the census of 1900, most of the 25,000 boys employed in the mines and quarries were in Pennsylvania. In 1911, there were 2 million children under the age of 16 in the American workforce. In the anthracite coal industry children worked as breaker boys, separating coal from slag, mule drivers, runners, and gate tenders.
In 1910, little girls worked at dangerous machines knitting stockings for long hours in poorly lighted, lint filled textile mills.
Thousands of blowers’ assistants were employed in the glass making industry. The children of America worked as sweepers, spinners, and doffers in the textile mills. Children worked in canneries and farms beside their parents. ‘Little merchants,’ hawked produce and sold an assortment of items on the streets of American towns and cities.
Children worked six days a week from six in the morning till eight o’clock at night. There was neither time for education nor play but only time to eat and sleep after returning home.
Children were employed working in mines, quarries, textile mills, canneries, farms, the glass industry, and virtually every field of employment. Small hands enabled breaker boys in the mines to swiftly sort and size coal in collieries. Employers threatened children to work harder or lose their jobs.
“Haggard, hungry, and faint after the night’s work…three cents an hour she got for her surrender of sleep and strength, play and study…” wrote American poet Edwin Markham (1852 - 1940).
Thank you🍀
A just read a book about coal, randomly selected from my local library in Wyomissing, PA. The author mentioned the Molly McGuires. Now I am fascinated by this topic.
EXCELLENT: and very informative. You've made me curious to know more about the Molly McGuires.
*Maguires
Great job. Really enjoyed this. Thank you.
Well done. The movie with Richard Harris and Sean Connery was actually very well done and a factually accurate docudrama
Great job ! Hats off to ya ! Since my family is from Girardville pa ,my great uncle lives across from the molly house . Molly for life
Great job on this!
I'm an American lad born and raised in Harrisburg Pennsylvania and am descended of Irish immigrants who came here to Pennsylvania during the Famine in Ireland 🇮🇪. I also have Scottish and German ancestors who also emigrated here to Pennsylvania as well and I thank you sincerely for this story!! I am fiercely proud of my Irish Catholic heritage who came to America to rid themselves of oppression and bigotry. God bless the United States of America 🇺🇸 💪
1:21. the woman in the background middle is my great grandmother, Jane Francis McLaughlin Sr. I would recognize her face anywhere, she looks just like my grandmother. She lived until 1971 at the age of 79.
A friend of mine's grandfather or great grandfather, don't remember which had to leave Ireland, for violating the game laws. "for shooting landlords out of season" that is his line.
An excellent video! Well done.
9 years later, and I watched your documentary, for the first time. It was impressive & interesting. I live a few blocks from the Pottsville Jail. I was just trying to tell the story to someone, who is from Philly, today. They have never heard about The Molly Maguires. Even told them about the "Handprint". I had relatives who worked in the coal mines, years ago. Some were of German Descent & some were of Ukrainian Descent. Pottsville had a Ancient Order of Hibernians, up until a few years ago. I sure hope you got an A++,when you did this. Maybe you should do a sequel on it?! Ha
I worked 17 years in the soft coal mines of western PA. I have much love and respect for the Molly Maguires and anthracite miners of PA.
Solidarity with the United Mine Workers ✊
What interested a boy named “Alex Petyerak” in this sordid bit of Irish-American history? Maybe you’re half Irish (like me) or you just enjoyed the movie with Sean Connery and Richard Harris. (The former was of half Irish-Catholic heritage while the latter came from a devoutly Irish-Catholic family, so good choices for their roles.) Anyway, young man, I agree with another commenter. This is very impressive for a seventh grader! You even answered a question that has puzzled me for some time. Why would people work in these miserable circumstances and why remain for long? Thanks for posting this. It’s most enlightening. Best of good fortune to you in your future studies and life!
I'm writing a paper on secret societies, and I ended up choosing the Molly Maguires. This has helped so much. If you are still reading the comments, thank you.
"No special reason" for hating the Irish?! There was a very particular reason. The English, especially those Puritans who went to America, abhorred Catholicism since the days of the Armada, because they saw Catholics as having allegiance to a foreign power (the Pope) rather than to England or the US. This feeling persisted up through JFK's election--he had to publically swear his primary loyalty to the US.
Maybe a poor wording, but here's how I took it:
The English, like most powerful groups, picked a reason to hate. Nothing special, but they made it that way. The Irish had land and the British throne and royalty felt entitled to it. So, they fomented pre-existing religious bigotry, just as Hitler later did to the Jewish people and Trump tried to do for, well, pretty much anyone who disagreed with him. Numerous other examples exist from the Crusades, the Inquisitions in Spain, slavery of Africans.
Also, many of the English hated the Irish. Period. They were viewed as an inferior race the way Africans were and still are.
I'm sorry this happened. To Catholic people or otherwise. The Catholic and Protestant people have been at war for centuries, with decreasing frequency thankfully.
Scots-Irish ancestors of my great aunt were non-conforming to English rule. And left. The Brits took first and asked questions later. Wait, they didn't ask. They took. From everyone.
Comparing Trump to the English and Hitler is beyond retarded. Minorities were more successful under him than any other president. You can't even come within the same universe of arguing the other two did that for who they oppressed
Pretty darn good for a 7th grade project. A deep subject indeed....
7th grade??? Alex, great job! Well-researched. Thank you very much for sharing this. Historical note for your next documentary: Alec Campbell owned a bar in Summit Hill called "The Emerald House(i think?)" & the trial transcripts basically indicated that he was innocent of any "Molly" crimes.
You might know why I’m here, also from PA
This is a really nice town to visit sometime
awesome video. I was just in the town yesterday and visited the jail
I’m 56% Irish ....🍀
Great work Alex. The Irish were always treated badly in America treated worse than the blacks. Since Cromwell forcibly enslaved 50,000 Irish and brought them to the New World.
They lived in horrific conditions and had high mortality rates. Films like THE MOLLY MAGUIRES and Scorsese's GANGS OF NEW YORK showed how they were persecuted.
The American govt apologized to Native Americans and Afro-Americans but they should be made to apologize to the Irish-American community for how they treated their ancestors.
A book which mirrors The Molly Maguires Is John Burrowes IRISH : SAGA OF A NATION AND A RACE although it is about the Irish in Scotland it mirrors what went on in North America.
they were treated worse than the slaves after reconstruction it is a toss up
Great Job!!
Good doc. for a 7th grader. i suggest you read a little more into this topic when you get older and get a better understanding of what truly happened, as i did. they were unjustly hanged.
As someone whose family dug coal in the Rhonda Valley in Wales, we came to Pa to dig coal here. I grew up in a little coal mining town in Somerset County. I am outraged that the video's narrator called the Molly Maguires "terrorists." If you knew the real story of being a coal miner during those times and have heard the old miners tell their story, you would be ashamed of your self for using the word terrorists. I knew John Kehoes grandson, so I heard first hand accounts of the Mollys. Just let me tell you one thing. If you would have come in the 60s when I was growing up, to our little coal towns to meet Jack Kehoe and old time miners and then had the audacity to call the Mollys 'terrorists,' well, let's just say, it would not have been pretty! Although coal miners and their families back then were treated like lessers and subjected to ridicule and prejudice, there is no way in hell we would stand having our kin who fought for the UMW to be called terrorists! Shame on you.
One of my great uncles was one. Rip.
My paternal great grand fathers and my grandfather were also working in these same mines during this time of the Molly Maguires. O’Donnells and McLaughlins My grandfather worked the mines in Scranton after the turn of century. My father would tell the stories of them being hung, told by his grandfather, which he passed down to me. Everyone’s gone now, so it’s all going to be just a memory sadly.
There is nothing more fierce than a Irishman in a dress...
great job
Children worked in dusty lint-filled rooms in the textile mills and coal mine tunnels laden with heavy coal dust particles. Those unfortunate children risked developing a variety of respiratory diseases.
Children in the workplace faced various dangers to their health and safety without the protection of healthcare and insurance. In an attempt to increase productivity and save money, machines were made unsafe to operate when employers removed safety guards. Children suffered from respiratory diseases from pollutants in the air. The open furnaces of glass factories produced intense heat and glare. These conditions resulted in eye disorders, lung ailments and heat exhaustion from exposure to the heat of open furnaces.
Consequently, nearly all children in the labor force were underdeveloped in weight, height and girth of chest. Dr. Elizabeth Shapleigh made the following declaration following her own personal observations:
“A considerable number of these boys and girls die within the first two or three years after beginning to work. Thirty-six out of every hundred men and women in the mill die before or by the time they are twenty-five years of age.”
Regrettably, child labor laws were weak and so was enforcement of those laws for there were no generally accepted standards.
Disheartened at the sight of child laborers, Rabbi Steven Wise of New York retorted:
“We [the United States] have laws that we find are no laws and we have enforcement that we find is no enforcement.”
Working children had no time for an education at school. Alexander J. McKelway boldly declared that child labor would eventually lead to:
“racial degeneracy, perpetual poverty, the enlargement of illiteracy, the destruction of democracy, the disintegration of the family, the increase of crime, the lowering of the wage scale, and the swelling of the army of the unemployed.”
The reader is cordially invited to my blog to read more concerning Lewis Wickes Hine's crusade against child labor in America.
liberty-virtue-independence.blogspot.com/2011/08/crusader-with-camera-lewis-wickes-hine.html
How do you justify calling the mollies terrorist ?
How far did you get? And what state are you from?
Music waaaaaay too loud
some of us are still out there... Know the hand signs..
Nanty Glo..... It`s only a heartbeat away...
town of Jim thorp, at time of hanging was called MAUCHE CHUNKE OLD INDIAN NAME
Interesting that the jury were all Pennsylvania Dutch who didn't understand the English language ..
Terrorists? Which side are you on?
Do we have to have Irish music in every video. Very distracting
randomly watched this only to see John Kehoe!
Lol his grave is just a few miles from the coal mine I work in
Well made shows how the Irish were victims of English ethnic cleansing to then escape to America to become paid slaves. A lot of bitterness is carried by the Irish.
All I hear is how they responsed. But TELL ME WHO THE MINE OWNERS WERE. AND WHO THEY WERE!!!!. HOW DID THEY LIVE THERE LIVES????
There is only so far the bosses can push the working man.
You call them terrorists. Do you know realize what that means? In your own words these are people being STOLEN from, STARVED, and exterminated. With all do respect, how would you respond.
John Kehoe, who was hanged as a member of the Molly Maguires, was pardoned by the governor as an innocent man, in 1979.
Coal mining is dangerous now. Back then must have been like Russian roulette.
Great job for one at that age.
I found this mildly entertaining while i was eating a mango and my hands were too dirty to click on "History of the British Empire for Dummies" which turned out to be lame after i wshed my hands and watched it
THEY WERE NOT TERRORISTS.
ps....good job.....do more.
LOLOLOLOL -hopefully my teachers will see this..
Quite too cheerful music to soundtrack such TRAGEDY events
So wrong
Ohm
Not a great documentary. Really leaves out a lot of critical information. The Molly Maguires did indeed have a very violent history. Hatred for Irish stemmed from the hundreds year old battles between the Catholics and Protestants. To say there was "no particular reason" is insanely naïve of history. I am Irish, I'd like the history to be told correctly.
Hundreds of years battles between Irish and English the religion thing was much more recent , think about it
Hey Skiman115 WTF are you- an American SCAB??! Peculiar that the number 115 should appear in your s/n. Yeah, I'm onto you.
Murderers and thugs, plain and simple.