The Molly Maguires, a clandestine society of Irish miners who engaged in a violent confrontation with Pennsylvania mining companies in the 19th century.

In Austin she hired the widow of an Irish miner and an old Negro who drove the rig for them and played a banjo.

The Congressman was reputed to regularly split desktops in half with a blow that could only be produced by the 6'5", 250 lb Irish miner.

Greenside has many residents of Irish descent, who can trace their heritage back to the influx of Irish miners into the town in the 19th century.

Irish miners already in the Transvaal at the start of the war formed the nucleus of two Irish commandos.

Irish miners working in the Transvaal when the war began formed the nucleus of two tiny Irish commandos.

Not long after her arrival she met and fell in love with Irish miner, Edward O'Donnell.

Doyle's 176-page manuscript, complete except for the epilogue, deals with Irish miners' revolts at the turn of the century.

It is the sole church in the town and was built by Irish miners in the 1850s under the direction of John Neumann.

My old man was an Irish miner, but my mother was Basque.