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The Molly Maguires Remembered | Irish America


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On 21 June 2002, to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the hanging of the Molly Maguires ten Irish Catholic anthracite coal miners convicted of intimidation and murder by an impartial jury of non-peers ten men who led the miners’ fight against capitalist oppression through the Workingmen’s Benevolent Association of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania the Borough of Mahanoy City (PA) will officially dedicate its publicly funded sculpture installation in the Molly Maguire Historical Park.
By building this park, officials and supporters are confronting the long muffled violent legacy of the Mollies and contesting the harsh criticism of opponents some of whom are Molly descendants who call the sculpture a depraved attempt to re-tell the tragic past in a sensationalist effort to promote tourism. ....

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