{"product_id":"the-sons-of-molly-maguire-9780823262236","title":"The Sons of Molly Maguire","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTraces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland’s devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the Mollies, the book documents the group’s Civil War rebirth in Pennsylvania, and its lasting influence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuing legacy extending into the present.\" -- -James P. Leary University of Wisconsin \"Mark Bulik's 'The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War' is a work of considerable scholarship, which carefully unpicks the tightly braided strands of ethnic, labor and party politics in the mid-nineteenth-century coal fields, especially the west branch of Schuylkill County. Drawing on the extensive research, he illuminates the competition between the Irish and other immigrant groups, and, most interestingly, the regional, class and generation tensions within the Irish community itself.\" -- -Breandan Mac Suibhne Dublin Review of Books \"Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Bulik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguire is history at its best.\" -- -Peter Quinn author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America \"With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland.\" -- -Terry Golway author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e: The Fountainhead | 3\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003e“A Slumbering Volcano” | 10\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART II\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Black Pig’s Realm | 25\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Secret Societies | 44\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003eLand and Politics | 62\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Molly Maguires | 77\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePART III\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6 \u003c\/b\u003eBrotherly Love | 109\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Hibernians | 122\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8 \u003c\/b\u003eAnother Ulster | 139\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9 \u003c\/b\u003eResurrection | 166\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10 \u003c\/b\u003e“Brave Sons of Molly” | 183\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11 \u003c\/b\u003eMars in Mahantango | 193\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12 \u003c\/b\u003e“A Damned Hard Hole” | 203\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13 \u003c\/b\u003e“A Howling Wilderness” | 221\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14 \u003c\/b\u003eParting Shots | 235\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15 \u003c\/b\u003eThe Road to Black Thursday | 254\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16 \u003c\/b\u003eShadows of the Gunmen | 288\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNotes \u003c\/i\u003e| 319\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIndex \u003c\/i\u003e| 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIllustrations follow page 182\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406139105623,"sku":"9780823262236","price":52.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823262236.jpg?v=1730494659","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-sons-of-molly-maguire-9780823262236","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}