John ‘Old Smoke’ Morrissey the man who ordered the death of Bill ‘the Butcher’ Poole.
By John Joe McGinley One of the most famous characters who inhabited the violent landscape of the Five Points Irish enclave …
Al Smith, the man who wanted to be president but helped build the Empire state building instead.
By John Joe McGinley As President Joe Biden whose ancestors hail from Ballina in Co Mayo and the Cooley Peninsula in Co …
‘Solid Men’ – The Irish in New York Politics, 1880-1920
How the Irish conquered political power in New York city. By Shay Dunphy. According to Lawrence McCaffrey, an authority on the Irish …