Irish Mobster - Deanie O'Banion 

sad but it is what it is

Iconic people? More like infamous crime

@@peterrobbins2862 lol yeah. "Iconic" was definitely the wrong word for him

He was a larger than life character.

Who cares

We do you mutt

@@JuanFuentes8492 shut the fuck up you hater.

@@JuanFuentes8492 shut the fuck up people like u are obviously poor and mad at life thats why ur toxic online i dare u to say that irl u poor plebian

Bawns mots, macayber. lol

The sacred and the propane

+IllPropaganda Thanks my friend. I'm trying to get better.

your good you

so nails nathan from the jimmy k movie public enemy was real wowzzers

I wonder if that major really exists lol. If gender studies does then mafia theories should too

"So now you know how Mairfia music plays, I suppose you'll want to join our orchestra?" 😎 Heehee yX-D 😂

Too bad he hadn't just stuck to the flower shop and lived a decent life.

Yes. He loved his flowers. Old Big Al had his furniture shop but never worked in it, as far as I know.

Why did so many of the Irish "mob" have flower shops?

+Mochan I appreciate the kind words.

+FrostyStone Ltd Thanks you my friend and thanks for watching!

Yes! I'm making research about them!

I had read that. But he never went by Dion.

We spell it Dion, but its pronounced "Dean" not the way it looks. For example Sean is "shawn," Eoghan is "Owen" etc. in other words, its spelled differently than it sounds. And what I mean by other people posting your videos is that I've searched for different mobster videos and found videos you've made posted up by different you tubers as if they're taking credit for the creation of your videos. Maybe I'm wrong, though. I'm very old and not privy to this whole you tube thing.

Tyrone is a county in Ireland as well. They are appropriating our culture!

No, that is Déan. Same pronunciation, but a slightly different enunciation. O'Banion himself HATED the misnomer "Dion" and said he'd love to get ahold of the person who came up with that spelling and error. According to him, "It makes me sound like a guinea". Idk if someone lied to you or youre making it up, but its wrong.

Juliebear carson I have also seen a reference online to Deaghan as being an Irish version of Dean. True or not? IDK

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+stickypool That sums O'Banion up pretty well. Thanks for watching.

He was a wanker who was n right place at right time. Nice guy? Exactly.

Bloodletters & Badmen what sums It up is that sign that sAid Irish need not apply it motivation is a lifetime of get all you can and don’t bother what yo are we still men and money is still green

Yep, his voice-overs on these makes the whole vibe real authentic.

Good voice, but some words are wrong. "bons mots" he pronounced "bounce mutts". It is actually pronounced like "Bond" without a "d" and "mo" (the t and s are silent)

CEEPMDEE kkk

The narrator is awful! Are you kidding me? Valor-ee-ous?? Valorous! It sounds like his audience is grade school students. Which is fine, tho they don't care about the Irish mob. Garbage.

@Cobb Knobbler awesomely ignorant.

+Feud Tube Thank you my friend.

boardwalk empire makes him look stupid and he clearly wasn’t

Arsenal F.C. it doesn’t make him look stupid, it makes him look arrogant. He thought he was untouchable

Man Unido yeah true but they all do so did al Capone, until he come up against jay egder hoover and got sent to Alcatraz

I'd like to shake the hand of this program's creator for including that scene.

@Roger B Uh, Oh...I never realized that. And you are right!

+Steven Myers Thank you my friend.

+Bloodletters & Badmen love love love these videos but is that the correct pronunciation of "Macbre"? I could be wrong not trying to be a dick just wondering if I've been saying it wrong lol. Great channel. Also, could you do a story on Enrico Riccobene? Seems very interesting.

Got a few questions for you. Did you watch the Chicago Mob program on AMC? What did you think of it if you did? It was all about Al Capone,but I hope they delve into some of the Irish gangs that preceeded the Italians.

+Michiilala Franks Thank you my friend.

I Haha sounds like a nice place

Lol. And with that came little hellions. Go figure.

+Will W. Perhaps sometime in the future.

+Roy Johnson Thank you my friend. And God bless!

+Roy Johnson Roy, I appreciate the videos too and am a believer in Jesus. I don't idolize organized crime,but it is part of our history in this country. It's a group of people who have different values and ways about them that thankfully are different than the way the majority has. Some of these men could have done so much more with their lives and been a lot happier if their lives had gone different directions. It's actually quite sad when you hear about guys like Lucky Luciano whose family disowned him. Most of the families of these men are decimated. It had to be very difficult to live in this kind of life. They paid a huge price.

***** Very true!

Thanks for watching my friend. Yes, there were. I have highlighted a few of them here ru-vid.com/group/PLQhDH_WZbs1PmQPt0EhlhcbdRjqKRIzQx

Thanks for the reply. I'll look at those links. Look forward to many more of your documentaries. 😎

If he was really into his religion he wouldn't have become a gangster to begin with.

JayoJay right.the reason o bannion was far from a victim LMAO.he got killed cause he ripped off johnny torio and thought he was just going to take it lying down

Sound Logic Prostitution is evil period. I love how people need a stupid satanic religion to live like an angel. Why not just be good because its right and theres an afterlife.

Van PastorMan: Not that easy at the time. It all started when the Gennas started to move into his turf. There was a lot of money to be made and O´banion hated most of the Italians and treated them that way.

@Sound Logic : Not at all. Capone was a Roman catholic as well and had no problem with that. He just saw it as a dirty business. Religion had no influence on criminal actions ...

Yeah, that hurt.

Its just a picture of O'Banion. Not necessarily at the age of 17.

Also, the concept of "the teenager" (a manufactured artifact in order to protract adolescence and sell products and tat) wasn't a thing back then.

+colin moore You're welcome. Thanks for watching.

Where?

+Alfredo Pelon Thanks my friend!

+john smith Very true.

The myth and folklore about these guys is one thing, the reality we all know is something very different. People don't eulogise the bloods and crips because they are current, but seen through the mists of time, the old prohibition gangsters seem almost cuddly and cosy. I doubt they were!!

+NorthTV I have an outline for one on the whole Morello family. I will get to it someday.

A snitch 😂

I thought there was one on him?

Oh I see

it's from the Lucky Charms leprachaun

The fuck is lucky charms ? There's no luck in Ireland we've suffered so much, do you Americans know anything about us 😂

I'm just saying how ironic it is

I'm here all my life to and never heard that saying either

Cead mead failté

+Robert .Hartley When it comes to the mob, sources always contradict. Ergo, unless blatant plagiarism is taking place no two articles ever have the same facts. But do pray tell, what inconsistencies have you found and share your sources.

+Bloodletters & Badmen well the one that comes to mind first is the name, which you address here. Wikipedia, various RU-vid videos and a few movies and TV shows too all prove a little inconsistent on Dean, Deanie or Dion. But there's also dates of certain events and the order of events too, such as when he met certain associates, when he moved to Chicago and the details of his death as well. Was he shot four times standing and once more in the head while on the floor, was he shit six times standing? Obviously that specific a detail is understandably first to get lost to time but a few sources have said or shown it with such confidence that it makes one wonder. And finally, not so much an inconsistency but I've found often his limp is not mentioned at all; I'd be interested to know the truth if it and how bad it was for his mobility.

The name is kind of weird in my opinion. During my research I tracked down a man in Maroa, IL who claimed to have lived next to a woman who went to school with O'Banion (by the way did you notice some will spell his name with 2 N's.) She told him some stories (none related to his later years in the mob) but they were unverified. As to his limp, I just didn't think it was that important to the narrative. If you plan on continued research, just remember to couch your language in probability. I believe it was Gus Russo in his book on the Outfit who completely discounts the story of the Seiben's Brewery raid.

+Bloodletters & Badmen Thank you, I'll keep researching. One last thing I'm very interested in though, perhaps you know the answer, I've heard he had an 'Irish tenor' singing voice but was born and raised in Illinois. Do you happen to know what his accent was? Did he speak with a typical Chicago accent or did he pick up an Irish accent from his parents? I'm trying to find any real footage of him, other than photos to see how he moved but I know that even moving images of him wouldn't have sound of him back in the early 20s.

I really do not know. I believe his parents were from Ireland. So he may have picked up the accent from them, But you are correct, everyone says he had an Irish tenor voice.

I really liked 'Miller's Crossing' but I don't think that was based one real life.

The Departed

Ash Wednesday with Edward Burns wasn't too bad either.

Black Mass is fantastic as well.

Road to Perdition. Gangs of New York.

You refer to a time where a bunch of incompetent losers killing innocent people as good? What the hell is wrong with you?

+Andre Laing I am actually working on the script now.

+Luis Sanchez You are correct. His character wasn't as likeable as history portrayed him. By the way, I did a video on the real Nucky Johnson.

+Bloodletters & Badmen i know you did. i'm subscribed and it is the first one i watched. can't wait until you do kore modern gangsters. Nicky Barnes, Frank Lucas, Etc.

In most movies or tv show O'Bannion is portrayed as an asshole to lean the viewer more toward Al Capone and Torrio

there's a great documentary on youtube about Nicky Barnes, 'Mr. Untouchable'

@@Mattraction513 exactly

He didn't just die. He was murdered.

+smith doe Thanks for the comment. And I have to agree. He had enough money. But I am guessing it wasn't enough for him just like with so many others.

+smith doe You don't get from dirty broke cockroach on street corner to Torrio's or O'Banion's position by "having enough". All criminals just "wants more". Just like 99% of people. Difference is that they have capabilities & have set of parameters that allows them to do it the violent or risky way (suppression of conscience, fearlessness, attraction to power or fearsome reputation ...)

+its bill gates to you son. -- So Budweiser should just be happy with the market share it has and quit trying to sell more beer? And remember, even if one guy is fine with what he has he still has to hold on to it or the guy who wants more and the guys who have nothing and want something are going to take it from him, these are criminals after all.

+Mr.Joe"blocks"Pozzi Thanks my friend.

Robert Giles no

Oh, yeah, top class guy - as long as you kissed his ass. I really like the part about him and his friends beating up honest guys trying to scratch out a living selling newspapers. Yes, a good man ... pathetic ......

+Mark Ramsey Capone didn't hate the Irish. He was friends with numerous gangsters of that ethnicity. He hated people who had what he wanted. As to his wife, he was quoted once as saying Irish women make the best wives cause they don't mess around.

Mick Wops???

and Joey the clown lombardo

+hank derbo Probably not Kuklinski. I believe he was a blowhard. I'll look into the other two.

+Bloodletters & Badmen no problem, I believe alot was false. my big problem with his boasting is there were at least new jersey police officers and atf looking into him. and kuklinski killed at least 5 people. itd be nice if one of the LEO involved with his case would write a tell all or the least this "Phil solimene" his only friend he didn't kill. Robert Prongay was a hitman kuklinski spoke of, mr. softee ty for your time though. another mobster Frank Ballistreri might be good to check out

hank derbo Ballisteri is on my list. Maybe I will do him next?

+Bloodletters & Badmen Thatd be awesome. the mad bomber would be perfect

No they weren’t.😂😂

British Empire were The O.G.s. Muscled in all over the globe and eventually created the largest empire in human history. All done under the threat of extreme violence.

LOL! Yeah, right - just another murderous scumbag.

All of us. And you, who were obviously posting here...