How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC
Photos show the original gangs of New York in the 19th century Daily Mail Online
This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster . List
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Irish American gangster Jimmy "the Gent" Burke, and the crew that inspired the iconic Martin Scorsese film "Goodfellas," are in the news again.. Last week, the New York Daily News reported new.
Photos show the original gangs of New York in the 19th century Daily Mail Online
Westies The Westies were a New York City -based Irish American organized crime gang, responsible for racketeering, drug trafficking, and contract killing. They were partnered with the Italian-American Mafia and operated out of the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan. [3]
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Mickey Featherstone was second-in-command to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies, an extremely violent Irish mob that operated in Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan, in the 1970s and 1980s. Law enforcement attributed at least 30 unsolved murders to the gang โ and the innocuous-looking Mickey Featherstone was recognized as one of their most vicious.
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The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob T.J. English 4.05 3,384 ratings194 reviews In the tradition of The Godfather, The Westies is a powerful tale spanning 60 years. A gang of Irish-Americans, the Westies patrolled Manhattan's West Side throughout the '60s, '70s, and '80s.
How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC
Among its most prominent groups were the Irish Mob, Jewish gangsters, and the Italian Mafia. While each were distinct and membership was drawn among ethnic lines, both Irish, Italian, and Jewish gangsters play significant roles in the story of the Castellammarese War. In 1930, the Italian Mafia in New York was divided.
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Pubs with gang roots Mickey Spillane's (350 West 49th Street) is named for the last true Irish godfather of Hell's Kitchen, according to Wolin. He ruled the neighborhood from 1960 through 1977.
How the Irish Mob nearly wiped out the Italian Mafia in NYC
The battle on Bayard Street of the Irish gang, the 'Dead Rabbits,' against the Bowery Boys, a nativist, anti-Catholic and anti-Irish gang, New York, 1857. (Credit: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy.
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From a New York Times-bestselling author: A true story of Irish gangsters in Manhattan--"A harrowing account of big city crime" (Library Journal). It's men like Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone who gave Hell's Kitchen its name. In the mid-1970s, these two longtime friends take the reins of New York's Irish mob, using brute force to give it hitherto unthinkable power.
The Westies Inside New York's Irish Mob by T.J. English
Al Capone returned to Chicago to see in the New Year, he was a happy man, he had taken his revenge on the Irish mob. * Originally published in 2021, updated in Dec 2023.
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All these years later, the legend of the wild, wild Westies -- the Gaelic gangsters of the '80s and '90s, led by the likes of Jimmy Coonan and Mickey Featherstone -- lives on. Author T.J.
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A photo tour and interactive map of New York Mafia history.. By the 1980s, the Irish-American community was moving on, and the area was starting to diversify. But a new generation of Irish.
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James Michael Coonan (born December 21, 1946) is an American mobster and racketeer from Manhattan, New York who served as the boss of the Westies gang, an Irish mob group based in Hell's Kitchen, from approximately 1977 to 1988. Coonan was incarcerated and began serving a 75-year prison term in 1988. Biography
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Mass Market Paperback - March 15, 1991. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Out of a partnership between two sadistic thugs, James Coonan and Mickey Featherstone, the gang rose out of the inferno of Hell's Kitchen, a decaying tenderloin slice of New York City's West Side. They became the most notorious gang in the history of.
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One day in the 1980s, this Irish American gang nearly changed gangland history by wiping out the entire New York Mafia. It was the gang's legendary propensity for extreme violence that.
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Directed and produced by Martin Scorsese, the Irishman is a must see for any fans of the gangster movie genre. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci star among an ensemble cast. The plot follows an elderly Frank Sheeran, the titular Irishman played by De Niro, remembering his time as a hitman for the Italian American Mafia in 1950's Philadelphia.