Written by Chuck Rogers of The Irish Balladeers from Scranton, Pa. This song tells the story of the Molly Maguires. Wikipedia describes them as a 19th-century "Irish secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the Eastern United States. The Molly MaGuires were 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." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molly_Maguires