Mol|ly Ma|guires

Mol|ly Ma|guires
Mol|ly Ma|guires «MOL ee muh GWYRZ»,
1. a secret society organized in Ireland about 1843 for resisting payment of rent during the famine. Its members disguised themselves as women when attacking rent collectors and other officials.
2. a group in the mining regions of Pennsylvania, formed to press the cause of the miners against the abuses of the owners, suppressed in 1877.
╂[< Molly Maguire, a common Irish name]

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  • Molly Maguires — Mol|ly Ma|guires, the a 19th century secret organization of Irish Americans in the coal producing area of Pennsylvania, US, which used often violent means to try to improve working conditions …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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