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LAMENT FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES by Arthur H. Lewis. 308 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $5.75.
The fighting arm of the immigrant Irish miners was known as the Molly Maguires, after a legendary heroine of Irish insurrections against the British during Ireland's great famine. In the U.S., the Mollies concealed themselves within the Ancient Order of Hibernians, a legitimate benevolent association of Irish-Americans...
Agent Provocateur. The man who broke the Molly Maguires was Franklin Benjamin Gowen, president of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Co., whose ancestors had come from Ireland's Protestant north; and he used another Irishman to penetrate the Mollies. His choice for the job was James McParlan, a gifted...
Violence in the coal fields was actually diminishing at the time when Pinkerton Agent McParlan, posing as a murderer on the run from Buffalo police, wormed his way into the high councils of the Molly Maguires. It was later charged that McParlan acted as an agent provocateur and deliberately whipped...
Docile Wave. When McParlan threw off his disguise in 1876, after three years as a Molly Maguire, he had enough evidence to send 20 men to the gallows. By this time, the Mollies were in a bad way, denounced by their Roman Catholic priests, shunned by decent citizens, swamped in...