Owen Forsyth, Author at The Irish Mob

Eddie McGrath & The Westside Mob Part 1

Edward J. McGrath, or “The Big Guy,” as he came to be known around the docks, was born on January 31, 1906. His...

With the arrests of Jimmy Coonan and his wife Edna, Billy Bokun, Mugsy Ritter, Flo & Tommy Collins and Johnny Halo...

The Five Points was a 19th-century neighborhood in Lower Manhattan, New York. The neighborhood was bound by Center...

Charles "Vannie" Higgins lived in an apartment on Ridge Boulevard, in Brookly much to the annoyance of his neighbors....

The Roaring Twenties. The Prohibition Laws, the Eighteenth Amendment & Volstead Act, had just been passed banning...

George Cassiday was born in 1892 and fought in the First World War and a founder of the Irish Veterans Association...

Edward "Jelly Roll" Hogan was the leader of the Hogan Gang and arch enemy of the Egan's Rats Gang in St. Louis, Hogan...

"The General" Martin Cahill was a criminal from Dublin, a burglar, armed robber & art thief, who was eventually...

Jacob Riis was born in Denmark in 1849 and emigrated to the US in the 1870's, he was a pioneer in photography, a...