List of American mobsters of Irish descent
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This is a list of Irish-American mobsters which includes organized crime figures of predominantly Irish-American criminal organizations or individual mobsters from the early 1900s to the present. To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article and/or references showing the person is Irish American and a mobster.
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| Name | Portrait | Life | Years active | Notes | References |
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| Mickey Bowers | No image available |
1901-1966 | 1920-1966 | New York labor racketeer who, with his cousin Harold Bowers, was a major power on the New York waterfront though the ILA's notorious "Pistol Local" based in Hell's Kitchen. | [1][2][3] |
| Edmund "Eddie" Boyle | No image available |
1965- | 1983-2003 | Gambino crime family associate | [4][5][6] |
| James J. "Whitey" Bulger | 50px | 1929- | 1952-1995 | Legendary Boston mobster and former leader of the Winter Hill Gang | |
| Elmer "Trigger" Burke | No image available |
1919-1958 | 1941-1956 | New York mobster and freelance assassin | [1] |
| Jimmy Burke | 1931-1996 | 1949-1982 | New York mobster and associate of the Lucchese crime family, popularly known as "Jimmy the Gent", who is credited for organizing the Lufthansa heist in 1978. | ||
| Dan Carroll | No image available |
1883-1946 | 1920-1933 | Organized crime figure who controlled in bootlegging Boston with partner Charles "King" Solomon during Prohibition. | [1][7] |
| William "Dinty" Colbeck |  |
1891–1943 | 1919-1943 | St. Louis organized crime figure and one time leader of Egan's Rats | |
| Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll | 1908–1932 | 1924-1932 | New York mobster and freelance enforcer during Prohibition | ||
| Eddie "The Butcher" Cummiskey | No image available |
-1976 | -1976 | New York mobster and enforcer for mobster Mickey Spillane during the 1950s and 60s. Later served as a mentor for Jimmy Coonan and other members of the Westies. | |
| James Coonan | 50px | 1947- | 1962-1988 | New York mobster and leader of the Westies during the 1970s and 80s | |
| Timmy Connolly1 | No image available |
1958- | 1976-1995 | Member of the Winter Hill Gang. | |
| Ronald Dermody | No image available |
-1965 | -1965 | Boston mobster associated with Whitey Bulger. He was murdered after a failed assassination attempt on Buddy McLean. | [1] |
| Tom Devaney | No image available |
-1976 | 1960s-1970s | New York mobster and enforcer for mobster Mickey Spillane during the 1960s and 70s | |
| Eddie Diamond | No image available |
1899-1929 | 1921-1929 | New York mobster and brother of Jack "Legs" Diamond | [1][8] |
| Jack Diamond | 1897–1931 | 1921-1931 | Philadelphia/New York mobster involved in bootlegging during Prohibition | ||
| Arthur "Butchy" Doe, Jr. | No image available |
1960- | Boston mobster and son of mobster Arthur Doe, Sr. | ||
| George Donahue | No image available |
1909- | New York labor racketeer | [1] | |
| John M. "Cockeye" Dunn | No image available |
1910-1949 | New York mobster and enforcer for labor racketeer Joe Ryan | ||
| William "Big Bill" Dwyer | No image available |
1883-1946 | New York mobster involved in bootlegging during Prohibition | ||
| William "Jellyroll" Egan | No image available |
-1923 | St. Louis mobster and co-founder of Egan's Rats | ||
| Maurice "Mossy" Enright | No image available |
-1920 | 1911-1920 | Chicago labor racketeer associated with the North Side Gang | |
| Mickey Featherstone | No image available |
1947- | New York mobster and member of the Westies | ||
| Richie Fitzpatrick | No image available |
1880–1905 | New York mobster and member of the Eastman Gang | ||
| Jimmy Flynn | No image available |
1934- | Boston mobster and member of the Winter Hill Gang | ||
| Danny Greene | 1933-1977 | Cleveland mobster involved in union racketeering | |||
| Kevin Hanrahan | No image available |
1956–1992 | Providence mobster and associate of the Patriarca crime family | ||
| Vannie Higgins | No image available |
1897–1932 | New York mobster involved in bootlegging during Prohibition | ||
| Henry Hill 1 |  |
1943-2012 | New York mobster and associate of the Lucchese crime family | ||
| "Dapper" Danny Hogan | No image available |
1880–1928 | Organized crime figure involved in bootlegging in St. Paul during Prohibition | ||
| Cornelius Hughes | No image available |
-1966 | Boston mobster and hitman for the McLaughlin Brothers with his brother Stevie Hughes | [1][9] | |
| Stevie Hughes | No image available |
-1966 | Boston mobster and, with his brother Corneilius Hughes, a hitman for the McLaughlin Brothers | [1][9] | |
| George Hogan | No image available |
1952- | 2000- | Boston mobster believed to be the Winter Hill Gang's present boss. | |
| Donald Killeen | No image available |
1923-1972 | Boston mobster and head of criminal activities in South Boston. | ||
| Richard Kuklinski1 | 1935-2006 | 1954-1986 | Hitman associated with the DeCavalcante crime family and Gambino crime family. | ||
| John Patrick Looney | No image available |
1865–1947 | 1909-1925 | bootlegger and organized crime figure in northern Illinois during Prohibition | |
| Edward "Eddie Mac" MacKenzie, Jr.1 | No image available |
1958- | 1983-1990 | Drug dealer and enforcer for James "Whitey" Bulger and the Winter Hill Gang. | [10][11][12] |
| Owney Madden |  |
1891–1965 | New York organized crime figure involved in bootlegging and former leader of the Gopher Gang | ||
| James Martorano1 | No image available |
1941- | 1960's-1995 | Younger brother of Johnny Martorano. Winter Hill Gang associate and member of the Patriarca crime family | |
| Johnny Martorano1 | No image available |
1940- | 1964-1995 | Hitman for the Winter Hill Gang and older brother of James Martorano. | |
| Michael Cassius McDonald | No image available |
1839-1907 | One of the earliest organized crime figures in Chicago. | [1][13][14][15] | |
| Frank McErlane | No image available |
1894–1932 | Chicago mobster and partner of bootlegger Joseph "Polack Joe" Saltis. | ||
| Eddie McGrath | No image available |
1906- | 1936-1959 | New York organized crime figure who controlled the waterfront area and oversaw criminal activity in Hell's Kitchen during the 1940s. | |
| Bernard "Bernie" McLaughlin | No image available |
-1961 | Boston mobster and founder of the McLaughlin Brothers | ||
| Edward "Punchy" McLaughlin | No image available |
-1965 | Boston mobster and member of the McLaughlin Brothers | ||
| George McLaughlin | No image available |
1927- | Boston mobster and member of the McLaughlin Brothers | [1][9][16] | |
| James "Buddy" McLean | No image available |
1929–1965 | Boston mobster and former head of the Winter Hill Gang | ||
| Hughie Mulligan | No image available |
-1973 | New York mobster and organized crime figure in Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during the 1950s | ||
| Joseph Vincent "Newsboy" Moriarty | 1910–1979 | 1923-1972 | New Jersey mobster involved in the numbers racket | ||
| Patrick Nee | No image available |
1943- | 1966-1984 | Boston mobster and associate of Whitey Bulger | |
| Russell Nicholson | No image available |
1931-1964 | 1961-1964 | Boston police officer and associate of the Winter Hill Gang | [1][16] |
| Myles O'Donnell | No image available |
1904-1932 | Chicago mobster and founder of the O'Donnell Mob | ||
| Dean O'Banion | 1892–1924 | Chicago mobster and founder of the North Side Mob | |||
| Carleton O'Brien | No image available |
1913–1952 | |||
| Gordon O'Brien | No image available |
1947-2008 | Providence mobster and associate of the Patriarca crime family | ||
| Edward "Spike" O'Donnell | No image available |
1890–1962 | Chicago mobster and leader of the Southside O'Donnells during Prohibition | ||
| "Big" Jim O'Leary | No image available |
1860–1926 | Chicago organized crime figure involved in illegal gambling | ||
| James "Spike" O'Toole | No image available |
1929–1973 | Boston mobster and associate of the Winter Hill Gang | ||
| James M. Ragen | No image available |
1881–1946 | -1946 | Chicago organized crime figure involved in bootlegging and illegal gambing | |
| Joseph Ryan | No image available |
1884-1963 | 1927-1953 | New York labor racketeer and organized crime figure | |
| Frank "Cadillac Frank" Salemme 1 | .jpg) |
1933- | 1957-1995 | Boston mobster and one time leader of the Patriarca crime family | |
| John "Red" Shea | No image available |
1965- | 1980-1997 | Boston mobster and member of the Winter Hill Gang | |
| Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran | No image available |
1920–2003 | 1955-1982 | associate and freelance assassin for the Genovese crime family | |
| Andrew "Squint" Sheridan | No image available |
1902-1949 | -1947 | New York mobster and enforcer for labor racketeer Joe Ryan | [1][2][3] |
| Mickey Spillane | No image available |
1934–1977 | 1959-1977 | New York mobster and head of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen during the 1950s and 60s | |
| Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan | No image available |
1939- | 1955-1983 | New York mobster and freelance assassin for the Genovese crime family | [1][2][17] |
| Roger Touhy |  |
1898-1959 | 1920-1933 | Chicago mobster and bootlegger during Prohibition | |
| Frank Wallace | No image available |
1904-1931 | -1931 | Boston mobster and leader of the Gustin Gang during Prohibition. | |
| Vincent "Vinny" Lynch | No image available |
1940-1986 | 1961-1986 | AKA Hollywood, racketeering Columbo. | |
| Danny Walsh | No image available |
1893–1933 | 1920-1933 | Providence bootlegger and major organized crime figure in southern New England during Prohibition. | |
| Kevin Weeks1 | No image available |
1965- | 1978-1999 | Boston mobster affiliated with the Winter Hill Gang and a later government witness | |
| Howard T. "Howie" Winter1 | 1929– | 1959-2012 | Boston mobster, second head of the Winter Hill Gang. | [18] |
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Footnotes
- 1 Is of mixed ethnicity.
References
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 1.12 English, T.J.. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. New York: HarperCollins, 2005. ISBN 0-06-059002-5
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 English, T.J. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob. New York: Macmillan, 2006. ISBN 0-312-36284-6
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Ward, Nathan. Dark Harbor: The War for the New York Waterfront. New York: Macmillan, 2010. ISBN 0-374-28622-1
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- ↑ Fox, Stephen. Blood and Power: Organized Crime in Twentieth-Century America. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1989. ISBN 0-688-04350-X
- ↑ Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Da Capo Press, 2005. ISBN 0-8160-5694-3
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 Atkinson, Jay. Legends of Winter Hill: Cops, Con Men, and Joe McCain, the Last Real Detective. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2006. ISBN 1-4000-5076-6
- ↑ Street Soldier; My Life as an Enforcer for "Whitey" Bulger and the Boston Irish Mob by Edward MacKenzie and Phyllis Karas, Steerforth, 256 pp., ISBN 1-58642-076-3
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- ↑ Lindberg, Richard. The Gambler King of Clark Street: Michael C. McDonald and the Rise of Chicago's Democratic Machine. 3rd ed. Carbondale, Illinois: SIU Press, 2009. ISBN 0-8093-2893-3
- ↑ Schatzberg, Rufus, Robert J.Kelly and Ko-lin Chin, ed. Handbook of Organized Crime in the United States. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994. ISBN 0-313-28366-4
- ↑ Johnson, Curt and R. Craig Sautter. The Wicked City: Chicago from Kenna to Capone. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. ISBN 0-306-80821-8
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Ford, Beverly and Stephanie Schorow. The Boston Mob Guide: Hit Men, Hoodlums & Hideouts. Charleston, South Carolina: The History Press, 2011. ISBN 978-1-60949-420-9
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- ↑ http://www.boston.com/metrodesk/2012/06/07/howie-winter-and-head-winter-hill-gang-arrested-for-alleged-organized-criminal-activity/wETUgfmDf3kGZ8YHqcmMQP/story.html
