The Why-Os

[Daniel Cassidy]

UATHADH UAIS
WHY-Os
Noble Few

The Uathadh Uais were largest of the NY Irish gangs after the Civil War.

The Why-Os were neither noble nor few.

They were the children of the desperate and dispossessed of Manhattan's lower
West Side saol lom.

See Hudson Dusters, Gophers, Shirt-tails (Siortail), Buckaroos, Marginals.
The Real Irish Gangs of NY.

There were no Dead Rabbit or Plug Ugly gangs.

Only the febrile imagination of  the dudish reporters of Henry Raymond's
violently Hibernophobic, anti-Catholic,  NY Times and Horace Greeley's equally
confused NYTribune.

Dia Uais,

Daniel Cassidy
San Francisco
Brooklyn