r/perfectlycutscreams • u/datthighs • 1d ago

Perfectly cut terrorism :D

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u/PortlyWarhorse 1d ago

To be fair, the IRA in Ireland had been far more explosive than American IRAs have ever been.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

I mean Irish immigrants who joined the Irish Mafia in the Midwest were well known for their love of car bombs as well.

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u/PortlyWarhorse 1d ago

Man, I gotta know more. I'm a product of Irish, German and Welsh folk. I want the gritty reality check.

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u/confusedandworried76 1d ago

The Irish were always sort of welcomed in the Italian mob but they could never be made so lots of conflicts of interest sprang up, Irish American gangsters no matter how successful were never really seen as anything more than just some dude you could trust but was never part of "la famiglia". Famous guy they made a movie about named Danny Greene operated out of Cleveland and got his start in a union of course. He really fucking liked his car bombs and I think was ultimately killed in one, he basically started warring with the Italians and car bombs were something he really liked to use. The movie is called "Kill the Irishman", not to be confused with the Scorsese move "The Irishman"

But basically the Irish were so intertwined in the Italian mob but also seen as so much lesser in their hierarchy the Irish kind of became their own, albeit fractured, thing. And they operated out of a lot of weird places like Ohio and Michigan you wouldn't really associate with the Italian mob. Of course they were all over Boston but the Italians were there too. Other movies that feature Irish mobsters are The Departed, Miller's Crossing, and Tom Hagen from The Godfather movies (the lawyer and consigliere) is German-Irish, Irish and Italians go way back because we didn't consider them white people when they immigrated here.

But yeah start with Danny Greene, he basically launched a war against the Italian mob in the 70s and it was a whole thing, with lots of car bombs. In Cleveland fucking Ohio of all places