The top ten Irish outlaws and gangsters - SEE PHOTOS

billy the kids mum was from Sligo she sailed from Sligo harbour she was my cousin the photos look just like my family you swear it was us

great site, but you missed the biggest Gangster and Fraudster ever to come out of Ireland ,BRIAN COWEN he defrauded the Irish People and nation out of €84BILLION EURO YES THATS CORRECT €84BILLION EURO.

How come you have listed no Fianna Fail politicians?

What about Jesse James? I'm related to him on both sides of my family (that's right, my family tree has no branches) LOL

what about christy kinahan who is locked up in spain for his 1 billion euro drug and property empire....or george (the penguin) mitchell...who lives in amsterdam and is worth over 300 million euros with his drug smuggling....or john gilligan....who is doing 20 yrs for the import of drugs into ireland

sounds like the Good the Bad & the Ugly

How about listing the top ten Irish Recipients of the Medal of Honor. 1) Audie Murphy (Most decorated Combat soldier WW II) 2) Joseph J. McCarthy (Iwo Jima) 3) Dan Daly (received it twice) 4) Michale P. Murphy (Afghanistan) 5) Edward "Butch" O'Hare (O'Hare Airport) 6) Henry Hogan (awarded twice) 7) John McCloy (awarded twice) 8) John Joseph Kelly (awarded twice) 9) Michael Dougherty (awarded civil war, survived Andersonville and the Sultana explosion) 10) William "Wild Bill" Donaovan (WW I and later head of the OSS in WW II). There are some 250 plus Irish born recipients and countless Irish American Recipients to go. For some reason I can't see a web site serving the Italian American community listing the "Top Ten Mafia Dons" or a site dedicated to the Jewish communityt bragging of Bernie Madoff. But then what do you expect form a site dominated by the "St.Paddys day"[sic] Green Beer Crowd.

No mention of Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll? His family were irish speakers from Gweedore, in Donegal. He spent a hitch in the Catholic Protectory, which stood where Parkchester now stands. He was a gunslinger for Dutch Schultz and one of the last of the free-style gangsters who worked outside the Syndicate. For this he paid with his life, cut down by a machine-gun wielding assassin in the London Pharmacy, on 23rd Street. He's buried in St. Raymond's Cemetery.

Jack Diamond does not deserve to be above Owney Madden on this list. Legs' recklessness is part of the reason, along with that of Mad Dog Coll, the Irish were essentially snubbed when the Italian-Jewish Syndicate was formed. At the same time, it needs to be considered that Madden made his name as the leader of the Gopher Gang that ruled Hell's Kitchen in the early 1910s,moved on to being leader of the powerful Combine that controlled NYC during most of Prohibition. Madden controlled clubs, boxers, booze, and gambling. Upon his retirement, he lorded over the Syndicate's gambling interests in Hot Springs for 35 years. Legs accomplished peanuts compared to what Madden did.

How about doing the 10 most famous Irish educators and generals. You could start with: Dennis Hart Mahan - dean of faculty at West Point for almost the entire ante-bellum and Civil War period. The real Good Will Hunting, who almost single-handedly transferred the engineering and military expertise of France to America. And his son Alfred Thayer Mahan, who was the inspiration for Sea Power and the modern US Navy, America's shield against fascism in the Pacific and Europes lifeline to liberty in the Atlantic during WWII. For generals you'd start with William Tecumseh Sherman, Phil Sheridan, George Gordon Meade and John Reynolds. Even Ulysses Grant had a Kelly and Ulster in his family tree.

I am a decedent of Emmett Dalton and the rest of them. Something most people don't know is that the Dalton's were first cousins of The Youngers and Jesse and Frank James.

Do not forget the Australian-Irish bush ranger Ned Kelly. The only known letter in Ned Kelly's own hand is a 28 July 1870 letter to Victoria Police Sergeant James Babington (Abt 1832-1881). James Babington was born in Magheracloone, Co. Monaghan and left Ireland for Australia in 1855. In 1870 over 60% of the Victoria, Australia police force were made up of persons born in Ireland. I am related to James Babington through one of my paternal ancestors.