Scott Molloy, Ph.D., “Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor” (University Press of New England, July 2008)
Scott Molloy, Ph.D., “Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor” (University Press of New England, July 2008)
In his book Molloy explores the life of Joseph Banigan (1839-1898), one of America's most successful 19th Century industrialists, who became New England’s first Catholic millionaire. Banigan was an Irish Potato Famine refugee from County Monaghan, in Ulster, who established himself in Rhode Island and became a titan of the rubber industry; Banigan become president