Ancient Order of Hibernians
The Ancient Order of Hibernians is an Irish Catholic fraternal organization. Members must be male, Catholic, and either born in Ireland or of Irish descent. Its largest membership is in the United States, where it was founded in New York City in 1836.
Members of the AOH parading at Cormeen, Co Cavan
AOH 1911 plaque, Kanturk, County Cork
St. James Church, New York City
Helena, Montana Chapter of the Ancient Order of Hibernians banner
The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the Eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often violent conflicts, twenty suspected members of the Molly Maguires were convicted of murder and other crimes and were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878. This history remains part of local Pennsylvania lore and the actual facts are much debated among historians.
Molly Maguires meeting to discuss strikes in the Pennsylvania coal mines, depicting in an 1874 illustration in Harper's Weekly
Pinkerton Detective Agency detective James McParland, in the 1880s
Franklin B. Gowen, District Attorney for Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania and president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad and Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company
Yost's tombstone in Tamaqua's Odd Fellows Cemetery, which states that he had been "assassinated".