History Main / TheIrishMob

* The [=McReary=] crime family from ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'' is rare modern variant of the classic Irish-American mob and {{Deconstruction}}, since the game takes place in late [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2000s]]. The family is an Irish-American criminal organization heavily inspired by the real-life Irish-American [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westies Westies]]. The family was once a powerful force in Liberty City with their base of operations in Purgatory (based on Hell's Kitchen), but the increase of national security, combined with [[TheMafiya new criminal organizations taking over territories]], the family was losing influence, becoming a shadow of what it once was.

** This is also true of ''Northern'' Ireland; the IRA and the Ulster Defence Volunteers fell on hard times towards the end of UsefulNotes/TheTroubles and resorted to protection rackets, heroin dealing and the odd bank job to keep the bills paid. After the end of major combat operations, many of them decided to carry on as usual and pocket the cash for themselves.

* ''Series/TheCompanyYouKeep'': Patrick Maguire is a crime boss from Ireland, with his son and minions mostly Irish as well, though they operate in the US. The main exception is his daughter Daphne, who's apparently from the US originally (her mother was it seems African-American).

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* In ''Literature/TheGodfather'', the Corleone crime family is sometimes called 'the Irish Gang' because Vito's ''consigliere'' is the half-Irish half-German Tom Hagen. TheIrishMob proper is mentioned in passing as a group of 'mad dog Irish stick-up artists' the Corleone's warred with during the Depression. They actually came within an inch of killing Vito, managing to shoot him (non-fatally obviously), which is better than Al Capone's gunmen managed.

** Dennis Finnegan, who was framed for a murder carried out by two dirty cops in the ''ComicBook/RobinSeries'', was an Irish gangster who'd become the leader of a group calling themselves the Blackgaters.

->''"When I was your age they would say we can become [[OfficerOHara cops]] or criminals."''

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* The 'Fighting Fitzpatricks' of ''Series/VeronicaMars'', an Irish crime family in Neptune who are involved in drug dealing and extortion, among other things.

* The antagonists of the 1991 Patrick Dempsey film ''Film/{{Run}}'' are apparently Irish mobsters, given their names (Halloran, Martins) and the [[{{Southies}} Boston]] / [[{{Joisey}} Atlantic City]] setting.

* The antagonists of ''Film/{{Run}}'' are apparently Irish mobsters, given their names (Halloran, Martins) and the [[{{Southies}} Boston]] / [[{{Joisey}} Atlantic City]] setting.

High chance of featuring FightingIrish. See also: {{Southies}} and IrishExplosivesExpert.

See also: {{Southies}} and IrishExplosivesExpert.

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The Mob originated in the early 19th century and -- until the rise of the [[TheMafia Italian]] and [[KosherNostra Jewish gangs]] in the 1880s and later -- was the dominating force in New York organized crime. During TheRoaringTwenties, the Mob was a major player and many gangster movies featured Irish gangsters -- famously Creator/JamesCagney made a career out of playing them, starting with ''Film/ThePublicEnemy''. Nevertheless, the Irish Mob waned after these years, struggling under competition with the Italian gangs and their own leadership struggles. They also slowly became less necessary: the Irish communities in America and Great Britain gradually assimilated and no longer needed gangs to protect them from disgruntled locals (because they ''were'' the disgruntled locals). Not that they ever went away--both in reality and in fiction the Mob has maintained a presence to this day, especially in [[{{Southies}} South Boston]].

* ''Film/ThePublicEnemy'' and other Cagney films.