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Updated: September 19, 2025
Defeat of any kind was a thing he could never think of; but for a Maguire one of the great Fermanagh Maguires to be beaten at a rascally game of Spoil Five, was not to be endured; the matter was impossible, unless by foul play, and as there was only one method of treating those who could stoop to the practice of foul play, why he seldom lost any time in adopting it.
"You are too young a man to remember the days of the Molly Maguires, those awful days when murderers lurked on every road in the anthracite coal field of this state. It was back in 1876 that the last of the Maguires was hunted down. Of course there is no excuse for murder; yet the Maguires were the result of a pernicious condition of wage depression and degradation of humanity.
"By soodherin' him by ticklin' his empty pride by dwellin' on the ould blood of Ireland, the great Fermanagh Maguires or by tellin' him that he's betther than any one else, and could do what nobody else could." "Could you make him drunk to-night?" asked Shannon.
"Well, he's fizzin' now, the hard-hearted ould scoundrel, for keepin' it from you; he forgot who you wor married to, the extortin' ould vagabone to one of the great Fermanagh Maguires, an' he' not fit to wipe their shoes. The curse o' heaven upon you an' him, wherever he is!
"Here, Barney Scaddhan Barney, I say, what's the reckonin', you sinner? Now, Art Maguire, divil a penny of this you'll pay for you're too ginerous, an' have the heart of a prince." "And kind family for him to have the heart of a prince, sure we all know what the Fermanagh Maguires wor; of coorse we won't let him pay." "Toal Finnigan, do you want me to rise my hand to you?
""After Father Antony's death it fell into the possession of his niece, who took it over to the neighborhood of Florence-court. But the Maguires were not satisfied that a thing so sacred should depart from the family, and at their request it was brought back." "For the confirmation of the former part of this account, the informant refers you to Sir James Ware.
This man was Art Maguire; to such a destiny had he come, or rather had he brought himself at last; Art Maguire one of the great Maguires of Fermanagh! But where is she the attached, the indomitable in love the patient, the much enduring, the uncomplaining?
It has also been pointed out that, although Catholics have rarely been given to revolutionary political and economic theories, the Mafia and the Camorra in Italy, the Fenians in Ireland, and the Molly Maguires in America were all organizations of Catholics which pursued the same terrorist tactics that we find in the anarchist movement. These are unquestionable facts, yet they explain nothing.
It was in this year that General Custer was killed by the Sioux; that the flimsy iron railway bridge fell at Ashtabula; that the "Molly Maguires" terrorized Pennsylvania; that the first wire of the Brooklyn Bridge was strung; and that Boss Tweed and Hell Gate were both put out of the way in New York.
The circumstances were as favourable as could be expected. But there never had been in Sligo or Leitrim any local Confederate or even "Repeal" organisation. The only local societies were secret Molly Maguires and Ribbonmen.
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