In one of the most unusual gang wars Dublin or Ireland has ever seen came in July 1979, when a bloody street battle...
The Triad Gang War of Dublin in 1979
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The Fatal Shooting of Beezy Garrity
In 1886 Danny Driscoll, who was co-leader of the Whyos gang was approached by 18 year old Bridget "Beezy" Garrity, who...
The Gustin Gang
At the turn of the 20th-century criminal gangs sprouted up in the Boston Irish wards, the Gustin gang was first to...
Humpty Jackson – The Hunchback of the Gas House District
Thomas "Humpty" Jackson born in 1879 and died in 1951, he was a New York criminal and last of the independent gang...
George Appo – An Extraordinary Pickpocket
George Washington Appo was born on the 4th of July 1854 in New Haven, Connecticut to a Chinese father, Quimbo Appo...
Weapons – The Shillelagh, Shillelagh Law & Faction Fights
The Shillelagh (pronounced shi - lay - la) is the name for a traditional Irish stick or stick of blackthorn wood, its...
The Distinguished Owen Vincent Madden of Hot Springs, Arkansas
Owen Vincent Madden was a quiet an unassuming character in Hot Springs, Arizona, he married the postmasters daughter,...
Vinegar Hill – Irishtown – Brooklyn New York
In the 1800's and during the Great Famine of Ireland many Irish settled along the banks of the Brooklyn Waterfront,...
The Scissors Sisters – A Page From The Westies Book
In one of the more shocking crimes that has taken place in Ireland, the Scissor Sisters is definitely one that is high...