SCOTT MOLLOY is an award-winning Professor at the Labor Research Center, University of Rhode Island. He previously drove a bus, was a union activist, and was Chief of Staff to a United States Congresswoman. A prolific writer, Molloy's most recent book is Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line (UNH, 2007).
"[Joseph] Banigan's story is set within the larger framework of the
history of the Irish in nineteenth-century Rhode Island." --Rhode
Island History
"Molloy utilizes an impressive range of newspapers, court cases,
business records, and other sources to provide not only an
excellent biography but also an illuminating examination of Irish
Americans in late-nineteenth-century Rhode Island."--The New
England Quarterly
"This remarkably rich history of 19th-century workers and one
particularly successful entrepreneur, Joseph Banigan, is . . .
solid. Molloy carries us through the struggles of Irish immigrants
and their role in the burgeoning labor movement, along with
Banigans's rise to riches and his subsequent fame as a
philanthropist. Irish Titan, Irish Toilers is expertly researched
and imminently readable." --The Providence Phoenix
"With the good sense, keen judgment, and undeniable wit for which
he is so well known, University of Rhode Island labor historian
Scott Molloy has written a fascinating book on a previously
underappreciated figure in 19th-century New England."--The
Providence Sunday Journal
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