The top ten Irish outlaws and gangsters - PHOTOS

There is a whole tribe of Irish australian bushrangers (outlaws) that your missing!

6 out of 10 were "Gangters" ...the rest were entrepreneurs. If you chose to add the bootleggers and politicians (including Bootlegger-Politicians) the article would look like Wikipedia. We are a creative lot.

how the hell did the author of this tripe page miss yer man Gerry Adams???????????

Why isn't Joe Kennedy on the list? He was a famious bootlegger. He got his money from an inside buyer deal. Henry Ford was going to buy some coal mines in Kentucky. Henry Ford bought the mines through a company Joe Kennedy worked for. Joe bought the mines and sold them to Henry Ford. This transaction bothers me on several levels. Henry Ford hate Irish Catholics, and was not going to be riped off. So Why did Henry let Joe ripe him off? I beleive it was a three way deal. Henry want to build Fords in England. Churchill want to create Northern Ireland. Where did the money come from for the Irish Revolution? Boston. Who controlled Boston? Honey Fitzgerald,(JFK's grandfather) and Patrick Kennedy (Joe's father). In the end, Kennedy got 25 million, Ford built Fords in England, and Churchill got Northern Ireland. Ford would have never given an Irish Catholic Kennedy 25 million, England did not want Ford competing with British Car manufacturer in England. Churchill got Northern Ireland.

Carrickcourt don't forget the Jerilderie letter,A statement by Kelly wishing to establish a republic in northern Victoria

I love reading about the old west and the "gangsters" of the 30's...In regards to Whitey Bulger, my dear friends grandpa worked for him many years ago...There you go with the 6 degrees of seperation...Great article...Thank you :-)

You might add O"bama

First off, wasn't this first posted months ago? Second, there is no Danny Greene, Jimmy Coonan, Mad Dog Sullivan, Mad Dog Coll or Jimmy the Gent Burke? Where's "The General" Martin Cahill? Finally, the fact that Legs Diamond is above Owney Madden is a crock. Madden was one of the guys who ran Diamond out of the city to the boondocks upstate. What was the source for this, Wikipedia?

Well, in reality, your silly list doesn't include that many Irish " gangsters " because they're nearly all American born! Hardly anything to be proud of either!

No Westies (even if they were grisly to say the least)? Jimmy Coonan? Was Featherstone Irish (I think so). I guess I had to say this; my father was a Westie and ironically, not Irish.

I think Danny Greene should have been listed. He is the most underrated gangster. Also Patrick Nee should get mentioned for what I believe was a good cause helping the IRA.

Kudos to you, Dara, for not including the name of "Bugs" Moran of Chicago, who was famously targeted (but narrowly escaped the killing) by Capone in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre of 1929. "Moran" was an assumed name, a tactic commonly used by gangsters, and he was not Irish as commonly stated in the media and popular histories. His given last name was actually Cunin, and he was of Italian and Eastern European descent.

Doing my family history research I discovered that the only known letter in Ned Kelly's own hand is a 28 July 1870 letter to Victoria Police Sergeant James Babington. James Babington (Abt 1832-1881) was a missing younger brother of one of my Irish great grandfathers George Babington. James Babington was a member of the Irish Constabulary from 1852 to 1855. James Babington is next found enlisting in the South Australia police in in Adeline 6 Sept 1855. James next joined the Victoria, Australia police on 21 May 1856. After James Babington's dealings with Ned Kelly he was stationed in various locations in Victoria, ending up in Ballarat where he died on 15 June 1881. I have been advised by the Victoria, Australia Police Museum in Melbourne that at he time Ned Kelly had dealings with Victoria police Sergeant James Babington that a majority of the Victoria police force were native born Irishmen. James Babington was born mostly likely born in Camgahy, Magheracloone parish, Co. Monaghan, Ireland.

some heros to look up to - wadda u tink.