Summary of Howie Carr's The Brothers Bulger

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#1 The Bulger family was not particularly Irish, as they were poor immigrants who worked for the government. Their father, James, was a third-generation laborer who was injured in a railyard accident, and his arm was amputated. They then moved to Dorchester and later to South Boston, where they heard about a new public housing project called Old Colony Harbor.

#2 James Michael Curley was the most vexatious Irishman of all, according to Bostonians. He was the quintessential Irish politician, and he went to jail briefly for taking a civil service examination for a constituent.

#3 The Bulgers were a family of small-timers, and that was what they were, even in their heyday. They were not a family of entrepreneurs, and they were not interested in rising above their station.

#4 Whitey was more his father’s son than Billy. Whitey was rarely at home, even as a boy, and would often keep to himself. The projects were not what they have since become. There were no drugs or unwed mothers, and next to no welfare.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822521308

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

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Insights from Chapter 19

Insights from Chapter 20

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The Bulger family was not particularly Irish, as they were poor immigrants who worked for the government. Their father, James, was a third-generation laborer who was injured in a railyard accident, and his arm was amputated. They then moved to Dorchester and later to South Boston, where they heard about a new public housing project called Old Colony Harbor.

#2

James Michael Curley was the most vexatious Irishman of all, according to Bostonians. He was the quintessential Irish politician, and he went to jail briefly for taking a civil service examination for a constituent.

#3

The Bulgers were a family of small-timers, and that was what they were, even in their heyday. They were not a family of entrepreneurs, and they were not interested in rising above their station.

#4

Whitey was more his father’s son than Billy. Whitey was rarely at home, even as a boy, and would often keep to himself. The projects were not what they have since become. There were no drugs or unwed mothers, and next to no welfare.

#5

Whitey was always in trouble as a youth. He was a member of the Mullen gang, and was often involved in trouble with the Shamrock gang. He acquired an ocelot, a story similar to the lion-in-the-basement tale of Jimmy Breslin’s novel about the Brooklyn mob and Crazy Joey Gallo’s crew.

#6

Whitey’s youth was not spent exclusively on the streets of Bay Village, hustling gay men for money. He was also a handsome boy, and he found himself hanging around the Third Street Café, a real shabeen, in the late 1940s.

#7

Whitey was eventually discharged from the Air Force in 1952, but he went back to the work he used to do in Bay Village, which was turning occasional tricks. He met an FBI agent