Owen Forsyth, Author at The Irish Mob

Corcoran’s Roost

Corcorans Roost was a neighborhood the East Side of Manhattan, today its known as Tudor City....

For about a hundred years, the Maxwell Street District or better known as Bloody Maxwell on the Near West Side of...

The Fox Lake Massacre was an event when Prohibition Era violence spilled over into Lake County, northeastern Illinois...

Theodore Allen, or known as The Allen, was an American gambler, political organizer, saloon keeper and head of a...

Irving Wexler better known as Waxey Gordon was born to Polish - Jewish Immigrants in 1888, he grew up to become an...

The “Horse-Shoe” section in Jersey City’s old Second Ward was an area of tenements...

One of the most famous evictions took place in July, 1888, on the Vandeleur Estate near Kilrush, Co. Clare....

Eamonn Dunne was at one time Ireland's most violent and feared gangland figure, believed to have been personally...

Williamson County in Southern Illinois during the 1920's was a lawless place, there was the Herrin Mine Massacre where...