Owen Forsyth, Author at The Irish Mob

John Connolly – When the good guys go bad

From the bad guys to the really bad guys and what makes this bad guy bad is that he was supposed to be a good guy, a...

Harold "Whitey" Whitehead was a native of Queens but knew many of the Hell's Kitchen crowd, he was 38 years and had...

Henry Bergh was born on the Lower East Side in 1813, the Lower East Side in the 1800's had some of the most notorious...

Charlie & Carol Gasko, according to neighbors were nothing special just an average elderly couple living an...

Isaiah Rynders was born in January 1804 in Waterford, New York to an Irish mother and German father. At around 12...

"Old Smoke" John Morrissey was born in Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland in 1831. Around 1833 his parents...

The Gopher Gang were one of Hell’s Kitchen’s most brutal gangs. They were given the name "Gophers" because they used...

In one of the most unusual gang wars Dublin or Ireland has ever seen came in July 1979, when a bloody street battle...

In 1886 Danny Driscoll, who was co-leader of the Whyos gang was approached by 18 year old Bridget "Beezy" Garrity, who...