PART I
Introduction: The Fountainhead 3
1 "A Slumbering Volcano" 10
PART II
2 The Black Pig's Realm 25
3 The Secret Societies 44
4 Land and Politics 62
5 The Molly Maguires 77
PART III
6 Brotherly Love 109
7 The Hibernians 122
8 Another Ulster 139
9 Resurrection 166
10 "Brave Sons of Molly" 183
11 Mars in Mahantango 193
12 "A Damned Hard Hole" 203
13 "A Howling Wilderness" 221
14 Parting Shots 235
15 The Road to Black Thursday 254
16 Shadows of the Gunmen 288
Notes 319
Index 357
Illustrations follow page 182
Mark Bulik is a senior editor at The New York Times. His most recent book is Ambush at Central Park: When the Irish Revolution Came to New York (Fordham University Press.)
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
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