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A View of Violence
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
April 19, 1998| Author:
Michael Kazin
| Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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MAKING SENSE OF THE MOLLY MAGUIRES
By Kevin Kenny
Oxford. 336 pp. $39.95
Who were the Molly Maguires? For anyone with a passing
interest in Irish-American or labor history, the name evokes a wild
and lurid, if somewhat murky, image: coal miners, straight from the
hungry pastures of Eire, taking bloody revenge on their enemies.
Were the murders part of a vendetta between transplanted Irish
Catholics and Protestant Anglo Americans? or perhaps a trade union
seeking to throw fear into arrogant em...
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Existence, not just deeds, of society still debated.
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