'MAKE WAY FOR THE MOLLY MAGUIRES!' The Ancient Order of Hibernians and the Irish Parliamentary Party, 1902-14 Author(s): Fergal McCluskey Source: History Ireland, Vol. 20, No. 1 (January/February 2012), pp. 32-36 Published by: Wordwell Ltd. Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/41331443 Accessed: 31-12-2019 18:30 UTC JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact
[email protected]. Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at https://about.jstor.org/terms Wordwell Ltd. is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to History Ireland This content downloaded from 82.31.34.218 on Tue, 31 Dec 2019 18:30:56 UTC All use subject to https://about.jstor.org/terms appeared to herald a new era, with the In appeared Irish Irish Parliamentary April Parliamentary Party (IPP) 1912 poised to heraldto the third Party a new Home (IPP) era, poised with Rule the bill to reap the harvest of a generation of constitutional agitation. Chief among their number was Belfast's Joe Devlin and, at his back, what Devlin himself described as 'a Catholic organisation with a membership of nearly one hundred thousand' - the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) Board of Erin. Both nationalist and unionist opponents For those loyal to the national cause, Home Rule constituted the Promised Land; for those outside the party fold, the prospects appeared far less enticing, however.