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The Irish Mob. Season 1. From the Irish gangs of New York in the late 1800s through to the 1970s, this six-part documentary series tells the stories of the first generation Irish kids who became some of America's most notorious and wanted gangsters. This story represents the 'American Dream' in its totality - the idea that a kid from.
The Westies Inside New York's Irish Mob by T.J. English
From T. J. English, the New York Times bestselling author of The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld, The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob is the true account of the vicious gang that ruled Hell's Kitchen from the 1960s through the 1980s. Even among the Mob, the Westies were feared. Starting with a partnership between two sadistic thugs, Jimmy Coonan and Mickey.
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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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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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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.
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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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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 — and the innocuous-looking Mickey Featherstone was recognized as one of their most vicious.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.