Molly Maguires Definition

məgwīrz
noun
A secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions.
Webster's New World
A secret society of Irish American miners in E Pennsylvania (c. 1865-75), which opposed oppressive industrial and social conditions, sometimes with physical force.
Webster's New World
Plural form of Molly Maguire.
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Molly Maguires Sentence Examples

  • The Irish society of Molly Maguires seems to have been organized in 1843 in the barony of Farney, Co.

  • The Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania consisted of similar classes of Irishmen, but there seems to have been no connexion between the two societies.

  • Between 1869 and 1875 the Molly Maguires were active here.

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