Molly Maguires
Molly Maguires is the name of a secret Irish miners' association that was active in the Pennsylvania coal mines in the United States in the late 19th century .
The group was considered violent, although there was never any clear evidence that the acts of violence assigned to the group were actually carried out by a secret organization. The group was named after Molly Maguire, a leader of an Irish secret organization around 1840.
The story of Molly Maguires was filmed in the USA with Sean Connery and Richard Harris based on a model by Arthur H. Lewis under the title Cursed to Judgment Day (English: The Molly Maguires ; USA, 1970).
In the novel The Valley of Fear by Arthur Conan Doyle , the Molly Maguires are compared with the criminal group of the Scowrers described there .
literature
- Allan Pinkerton : The Molly Maguires and the Detectives . Original edition New York 1877; New edition Open Road Media, 2014, ISBN 978-1-5040-0149-6 . (books.google.at)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Valley of Fear . New edition. Kein & Aber , Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0369-5146-6 , pp. 205, 215, 216.