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{{quote|''When I was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals.''|'''Frank Costello''', ''[[The Departed]]''}}
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Boston is especially associated with The Irish Mob, but, as noted above they can turn up anywhere.
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== Comic Books ==
* While ''[[Batman]]: [[The Long Halloween]]'' mostly involves the Italian Mafia, a quartet of Irish
▲* While ''[[Batman]]: [[The Long Halloween]]'' mostly involves the Italian Mafia, a quartet of Irish gangsters--employed by Carmine Falcone--appear in one chapter.
* [[Garth Ennis]]' run on [[The Punisher]] includes the "Kitchen Irish" arc, which deals with the last remnants of the Irish mob duking it out in the newly-gentrified Hell's Kitchen.
* ''[[Road to Perdition]]'' has its protagonist Michael O'Sullivan (who was renamed Michael Sullivan for the movie), and the Looney mob (renamed Rooney for the movie) led by John and Connor Looney.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Godfather]]'' the Corleone crime family is sometimes called 'the Irish Gang' because Vito's ''consigliere'' is the half-Irish half-German Tom Hagen.
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* The Clerkenwell crime syndicate (also known as the A-Team or the Adams Family) is/was a London based mob run by three Irish Catholic brothers (Terry, Tommy and Patrick Adams). At their peak in the 90's they were one of the most powerful criminal organisations in the UK, were linked with 25 murders and amassed a fortune estimated at £200 million.
* Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll was notorious back in the days of organized crime for his feud with Dutch Schultz. Although Coll and his Irish mob were the first rivals to make Schultz so much as flinch, they were mostly notorious for a botched drive-by that left the intended target unharmed but killed a 5 year old boy.
* Joe Kennedy was a very successful bootlegger and an Irish community leader. After prohibition he funneled the money of his defunct criminal enterprise into the political campaigns of his sons [[JFK|John]], Rob, and Ted.
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