5 Black's Rd, London
Until 9 Oct
For this event, Author Andy Nolan will be In-Conversation; Following the interview he will do a book signing; Green Bloods will be available to buy at the ICC on the night. In New York, Boston and Chicago they’d be known as the Irish Mob. In London, elite criminal gangs of Irish descent have forever come under the common guise of cockney diamond geezers and gals – that is until now. Because scratching beneath the surface of the capital’s dark criminal underbelly we soon discover a tough and ruthless breed of top echelon brigands with the green blood of Mother Ireland coursing through their veins. From Billy Hill to Mickey Greene and from Alice Diamond to Josie Daly, no other ethnic group has reached the summit of London gangland so ruthlessly and successfully as one of the capital’s oldest immigrant tribes – the Cockney Irish. Featuring unique access and interviews with the major players and their associates, Green Bloods reveals the true story behind their headline grabbing multi-million pound heists, bloody turf war slayings, international drug smuggling rackets, dramatic courtroom escapes and feuds with the Krays, the Blundells, the Turks and the Triads. Forming close bonds with the IRA, the New York mafia’s deadly Five Families, the powerful Corsican Unione Corse, Colombian drug cartels and Hollywood stars Frank Sinatra, Richard Harris, Errol Flynn and Peter O’Toole; the story of the Green Bloods is a bloody and often brutal London Irish tale interwoven between abject poverty, prejudice, tragedy and sometimes redemption. This is as up close and personal as it gets. So, for the very first time meet London’s Irish Mob; meet the Celtic criminal chieftains and clans of the treacherous Big Smoke…
Not the same tradition as the lineage above — a genuinely different thread to pull, if you want one.