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Molly Maguires
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Molly Ma·guires (mə gwīrz′)
- a secret society organized in Ireland in 1843 to terrorize landlords' agents in order to prevent evictions
- ☆ a secret society of Irish-American miners in E Pennsylvania (c. 1865-75), which opposed oppressive industrial and social conditions, sometimes with physical force
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