Luke Kelly Molly Maguires (live)

[Nigelk388]

this is fantastic music

[TheDolmori]

Great Grandad was a miner in Montana, he was from Allihies Mines Co. Cork. I like this song, I guess the cubicle that awaits me tomorrow is not such a bad thing. However, a sailing ship or steamer across the Atlantic and travels in a new land arouse a certain feeling.

[aoher09]

When Irish eyes are Smilin' . . . . duck !

[spitfire47able]

sean connery good film.Thatcher killed the coal fields. Say what you want about us english but we fought to keep our mines working yes we lost but we fought .Every village had its own winding wheel head stock .As a boy in all our villiges the whistle meant our fathers and brothers were coming up the shaft. I did two years underground and hated it .

[3tangle3]

@spitfire47able thats cos the english is sadly just a made up construct by your state to keep the people down...england was taken over by a norman elite and culture...thatcher is merely the millenia old shitty legacy

[blackmountainboar]

Black Thursday - June 21st 1877

[normankeena]

when my ears first met this song I was uplifted. solo it wont work, yet it does. I don't know go figure

[irishgeal1]

spot on sheamus

[spudseamus]

I think you are mixing up the White Boys (Levelers) with the Molly Magiures

[DwnAszPunk]

Lets end the debate. The Molly Maguires were Irish immigrants who worked in the Northeastern Pennsylvania Coal Mines. They assassinated coal mining bosses and foreman for crimes against the working class miners. They were members of the Fenian Brotherhood and Hibernians. They were called Molly Maguires because they dressed as women when they assassinated so they wouldn't be recognized. Some were hung, most of them slipped back into obscurity. Phoenixville, PA has a bar named for after them.

[metyuewb]

Molly Maguires were a secret organization of thugs who actually had fuckall to do with any ideology but murdered not only mine bosses but anyone they had a personal grudge against like a German (non-Irish) policeman, Benjamin Yost. To read a well-researched account, try Wayne G Broehl's book The Molly Maguires. The real thing is not hard to come by if you are actually interested.

[CarlBewley]

Ok dude, I will,

Cheers

[eddymcpre]

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THIS IS FROM A FULL PERFORMANCE??? This is easily the best version and when you put it on disk the playing of the instruments is so catchy and uplifiting vocals (obviously) from Luke, god bless his soul

[layrry99]

Oh and by the way as a Royal Marine, I have been pretty biased in my time, but the world has gone soft!!! most of you are all soft! this is for a reason and in belief!!!

[ErnstBecker]

Well said brother !

Ernst Becker

The Republic That Once Was Vietnam

USMC

66/67

[layrry99]

Right or wrong, these men stood and paid for what they believed in!!!! mAYBE WE SHOULD ALL DO THAT A BIT MORE NOW!

[ailbhe1000]

The Molly Maguires stood up to bullies.. where irish men were oppressed the mollies stood tall

[ErnstBecker]

Anyone? Wasn't it "The Molly Magiures" , the movie, with Sean Connery and Richard Harris

[wolfbrother2501]

There where two Molly Maguires one in dublin who where builders and the others who this song is a bout where in austrailia and where miners if my mind serves right

[chrissypp23]

miners in Pennsylvania!

[wolfbrother2501]

is this not about the miners in new south wales who attacked the rail way lines under the guise of the Hibernian brother hood

[ErnstBecker]

Bull's--eye !

One of them was my Grandfather.

[metyuewb]

"just murderers"? Look if you don't even have a clue do some research, you have the net. Most of history tends to glamorize murderes in one way or another, in case you haven't figured that out. Lot of projections hitting these fuckers too, most of which they don't deserve.

[angrydwarfofdoom]

I live in central Pennsylvania and can attest to the fact that many old people in our area still know people who were killed by them. Mostly all foreman and bosses, some of which were arseholes by all accounts, but they were still murdered. I agree that the hangings were not necessarily just, but the fact remains that many were killed at their hands. Wives were told that their husbands were not coming home, etc.

[metyuewb]

Well even the song is clearly about miners.

[metyuewb]

I guess you are, nevertheless there was only one Molly Maguires, and they were a bunch of tribalist provincial thugs and murderes. Well-researched book about them by Wayne G. Broehl.

[metyuewb]

There is nothing to not understand if you know who the molly maguires were.

[metyuewb]

There isn't shit to not understand if you know who the Molly Maguires were. A bunch of killers. Possibly innocent men getting hanged in their name does not absolve the murders they committed, that's what I'm talking about..

[CarlBewley]

Hmm, actually you're wrong. The Molly Maguire's were a group of protesters against awful mine conditions, may of who were framed and persecuted for their stand. Those hired by industrialists to shut them up were responsiible for murdering innocent families. Still, I wasnt there so can only go off contemporary accounts many of which are contradictory. Sounds like a bit of a George Hurst thing going on to me.

[metyuewb]

Molly Maguires were a secret organization of thugs who actually had fuckall to do with any ideology but murdered not only mine bosses but anyone they had a personal grudge against like a German (non-Irish) policeman, Benjamin Yost. To read a well-researched account, try Wayne G Broehl's book The Molly Maguires. The real thing is not hard to come by if you are actually interested.

[metyuewb]

make way for the molly maguires, they're MURDERES they're butchers but they're cowards

What THE FUCK

[Lina87]

Amazing song! :D

[jaytodt]

Ah man, how do you discover these rarities...

[LosSanPatrios]

brilliant!

[JMD0429]

When I was in school I did a major research paper on the Mollies. Glad to see Luke Kelly bringing attention to a subject that is barely a footnote in the history books.

[sheafferhistorian]

Luke sings the best version of this song, but it was Phil Coulter who wrote it. They made quite a team.

[colmmeister]

jaysus kellyo its a fine collection ye have all the same.

[kellyoneill]

Cheers,

I love my lukey collection :)

[SirCoughsalot]

Everyone loves your Lukey collection.

[barcelona36]

A great working class song.

[rakovskii]

Make Way for da Molly Maguires.

"da" is part of the accent from the Molly Maguires' part of eastern Pennsylvania. Am I hearing this wrong? Is it part of Kelly's normal accent? I didn't hear it in his other songs though. So he may be doing it on purpose.

[stannota80]

it means "the" man dig da bloody seed

dig the bloody seed

[parakarter]

Strong, passionate singing from Luke - BRILL!

Thanks, Kelly.

[Guyptp12]

Nice =)