Gido authored the chapter “Alexander Campbell’s Molly Maguire Trial: The Miners and the Pinkertons” for F.

Professor emeritus in criminology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and author of Women’s Mental Health Needs Across the Criminal Justice System, Gido currently serves as editor of The Prison Journal. To the Kehoe Foundation’s efforts, she brings a BA honors degree in history from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, and a longtime interest in this revisionist history. Flaherty is co-author with Alessio Fasano, MD, of Gluten Freedom. In June 2018, at the national ACIS meeting in Cork, Ireland, Flaherty will present “Pennsylvania’s ‘Molly Maguires’: Did a Nativist Environment Hang Innocent Irishman?” In January 2018, Eric Foner reviewed these findings and characterized them as “very impressive and convincing.”įlaherty, a direct descendant of Kehoe, serves as communications director for the Center for Celiac Research at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Flaherty is currently completing the manuscript The Passion of John Kehoe and the Myth of the “Molly Maguires.” Fiction” at the American Conference for Irish Studies-Western Regional (ACIS-West) meeting in Spokane, Washington.

In 2017, she presented “Pennsylvania’s ‘Molly Maguires’: Fact vs. In 2013, Flaherty formed the Kehoe Foundation to help memorialize this history. Publication venues include the Irish Echo and the online blog From John Kehoe’s Cell. Her presentations include community programs offered through the University of Massachusetts and American, Fairfield, and Pennsylvania State universities. Flaherty, a direct descendant of John Kehoe, has spent almost two decades researching and documenting Pennsylvania’s “Molly Maguire” conflict.

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