Also pictured are an Irish-American group known as the Gopher Gang at the peak of their power and groups of young boys robbing drunk men in New York in the early 1900s.

The Gangs of New York soundtrack includes a song, The Hands That Built America, by the Irish band U2. The song is about the role Irish immigrants played in American history.

The fictional film is set in 19th-century New York and centers around a feud between rival gangs of different backgrounds. The protagonist is an Irish immigrant seeking revenge for his father's ...

Instead of showing us a slice of criminal life in the 20th century, Gangs of New York warps us back to the corruption and ethnic conflict of the early 1860s, telling the story of a young Irish ...

The assimilation of Irish Catholic immigrants into American society was a turbulent process in New York City before, during and after the Famine. In 1835, more than 30,000 Irish arrived annually ...

"Gangs of New York" opens with a battle, or rather, with the vision of a ragtag group of Irish immigrants readying themselves for battle, ...

What Scorsese achieves in Gangs of New York is defiantly untrendy: a triumph of pure craft and passionate heart. You can wait around and hope, but you won’t see this kind of epic filmmaking ...

"Gangs of New York" bears all the earmarks of a magnum opus for Martin Scorsese: Fascinating and fresh material about his beloved New York City, an epic reach, an equally epic gestation period, a ...

How Irish women helped impoverished immigrants and tamed the Gangs of New York “How the Nuns of New York Tamed the Gangs of New York” is a play written and produced by Turlough McConnell and ...