Piker Press — Weekly Journal of Arts and Literature
April 20, 2026

Shamrock Crew

"...did favours for the Sicilian mob..."

Shamrock Crew

The Shamrock Crew
came up together
in little Dublin
and did favours for
the Sicilian
mob.

Carrying out contracts
and enforcing codes
of conduct.

They were notoriously brutal
and did the dirty work
for years.

Soon,
they brought so much heat
that they themselves
were taken out.

Their leader
Sean O'Hara
once told me:
I answer to people
who answer to people
and the one who stops answering first
dies
.

It's the best description
of the mob
I've heard to date.






Article © Ryan Quinn Flanagan. All rights reserved.
Published in the March 4, 2019 issue .
Image(s) are public domain.
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