By Sid Rich

Willie John Mahoney lines the immigration of an Irish farming couple who depart their famine-stricken relations potato farm in Limerick, eire, in 1922. in the course of their passage to the United States, Will and Mary Mahoney meet Vito Rizzi, a guy of honor from Palermo, additionally fleeing an insupportable scenario in Benito Mussolini’s Mafia antagonistic Italy. The dyslexia of Willie John Mahoney, the single son of Will and Mary, will strength him from university and into the streets of latest York, the place he turns into the pinnacle of a gang. Willie is healthier buddies with Augi Andoleni, Jr., the one son of Will’s company, a slightly frail and studious younger guy, an entire contrary of Willie. Tragedy will contact the Andoleni relatives, because the lives of the Mahoneys and Vito Rizzi will perpetually be intertwined besides their colourful pals in Little Italy, set opposed to a backdrop of prohibition, their neighborhood’s Mafia-rich surroundings and global warfare II.

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