Title: History of the surname Cooney
Headings: Cooney – descendants of an elegant chief
Cooney – descendants of an elegant chief
Virtue is the only nobility
Be a friend of Ireland Calling
Notable Cooneys
Famous Cooneys
Variations of the Cooney surname
Video histories of popular Irish names
Irish Names

Content: He was known as the ‘Great Priest of Elphin’. He was a priest of the Diocese of Elphin, which was the site of a monastic house that had been established by St Patrick in around AD 450. Many Cooneys headed to America in the 19th century in the Great Migration. Ireland lost half its population as people left their homeland to escape starvation caused by the potato famine. Jimmy Coonan was an Irish American mobster from Hell’s Kitchen, Manhattan, New York. The Gambino crime family are said to have murdered rival gangster Mikey Spillane as a favour to Coonan. Years earlier Spillane had kidnapped Coonan’s father and badly beaten him. Joan Ganz Cooney
After a long career in violent crime, Coonan was eventually jailed for life for racketeering in 1988. Famous Cooneys
Joan Ganz Cooney is an American TV producer. She has had a long and successful career and won countless awards for her work in radio and TV.