Title: Irish Mob - Wikipedia
Headings: Irish Mob
Irish Mob
Contents
United States
New York
Pre-prohibition
Prohibition
The Westies
Boston
Prohibition
The Winter Hill Gang
Irish Mob War
FBI corruption
Philadelphia
Pre-prohibition
Prohibition
Post-World War II and the K&A Gang
Chicago
Prohibition
Cleveland
Pre-Prohibition
Prohibition and the Cleveland Syndicate
Post World War II
Danny Greene
Detroit
Hot Springs
Minneapolis
New Orleans
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Rock Island
Southern Illinois
St. Louis
Toledo
Canada
Montreal
West End Gang
Ireland
Dublin
1860s - 1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
Limerick
Pre-Irish crime families
The first crime family
Limerick feud
Recent years
Spain
Kinahan cartel
Fiction
Films
Television
Video games
See also
References
Bibliography

Content: The most prominent members have included Eddie McGrath, James Coonan, Mickey Featherstone, James McElroy, and Edward Cummiskey . In the Irish/Italian Mob War of the 1970s, the Irish mob saw an increased threat from the Italian Mafia as the Genovese crime family sought control over the soon-to-be-built Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. Since the convention center was located in Spillane's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood, Spillane refused to allow any involvement by the Italians. Although the Italian gangsters greatly outnumbered the members of the Irish mob, Spillane was successful in keeping control of the convention center and Hell's Kitchen. The Italians, frustrated and embarrassed by their defeat to Spillane, responded by hiring a rogue Irish-American hitman named Joseph "Mad Dog" Sullivan to assassinate Tom Devaney, Eddie "the Butcher" Cummiskey, and Tom "the Greek" Kapatos, three of Spillane's top lieutenants. Also around this time, a power struggle emerged between Mickey Spillane (mobster) and James Coonan, a younger upstart from Hell's Kitchen. In 1977 Spillane was murdered in a hail of bullets by assassins from the Genovese crime family. This prompted Coonan to form an alliance with Roy DeMeo of the Gambino crime family. The Genoveses decided that the Westies were too violent and well-led to go to war with and mediated a truce via the Gambinos. Coonan was imprisoned in 1986 under the RICO act.