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Title
The Murders of the Mollie Maguires List
Subject
- Pennsylvania History
- Labor History
Description
The document announces the execution of the last Mollie Maguire, Dennis Donnelly. He was the fifteenth executed. The document lists the remaining 14 murdered Mollie Maguires. The Molly Maguires were an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Great Britain and parts of the Eastern United States. They were best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often violent conflicts, twenty suspected members of the Molly Maguires were convicted of murder and other crimes and were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878.
Location Covered
Pennsylvania
Time Period Covered
1877-1878
Digital Format
application/pdf
Contributing Institution
Battle of Homestead Foundation
Sponsorship
This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education.
