In anticipation of the release of historical novel Divide the Dawn, an artist collective sketched some of the main characters as they appear in 1919.
Click links to read about the characters in Divide the Dawn . Go to the bottom of this page for a list of all characters.
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Dinny Meehan - Leader of the gang known as The White Hand.
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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Bill Lovett - Divide the Dawn
Bill Lovett - Character in Divide the Dawn The Black Hand sarcastically calls Bill Lovett "Pulcinella" because he looks like the crazy clown of Italian classical lore (art by Sebastian MacLaughlin) "Ya know, people talk. And they're sayin' one day the gang could be all Lovett's.
Bill Lovett - Summoned from the dead to fulfill a prophecy
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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Liam Garrity - Irishtown's last shanachie (art by Guy Denning)
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The Swede - Divide the Dawn
The Swede - Character in Divide the Dawn "The Swede makes his territory: The fighter's circle. Daring a cross of it; until finally he puffs his long trunk and the angular slant of his splayed chest and shoulders for a grunt in the air that of a bull ape's summoning."
The Swede - Terrorist of Brooklyn's Irishtown (art by Guy Denning)
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Vincent Maher - Charmer with a .38 caliber.
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Sadie Meehan - A terrible decision hangs over her
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Harry Reynolds - Weighted down by the secrets he protects with a shiv.
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Richie Lonergan - Pegleg'd assassin
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin & Thomas Kerr)
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Anna Lonergan - Her shield is cruelty.
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William Brosnan - (The Law) Haunted by a dark past
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Mary Lonergan - Divide the Dawn
Mary Lonergan - Character in Divide the Dawn "That biddy ol' flab? She comes here all the time askin' for favors. She wants her eldest son to open a bike shop, but of course she don't have the money for it. So she wants Dinny's help."~Vincent Maher Mary Lonergan (b.
Mary Lonergan - Mourning Mother Mary
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Jonathan G. Wolcott - (Waterfront Assembly) The fat man of Anglo New York
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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Darby Leighton - (The Exiled) A man of the shadows
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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The Gas Drip Bard - Irishtown's shanachie (art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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Thos Carmody - (ILA) Quick Thos, the cockroach that didn't die.
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Sixto Stabile - (The Black Hand) Raised in South Brooklyn, educated at Harvard
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Garry Barry - the wraith whose middle name is "fookin'" (Garry fookin' Barry)
(art by Sebastian MacLaughlin)
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Mam Garrity - Lost so much of what she created
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Pickles Leighton - King of the Inside of Sing Sing Penitentiary
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Mickey Kane - The future died with him (art by Thomas Kerr)
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Petey Behan - Blathering rowdy (art by Guy Denning)
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Thomas Burke - Trapped in the gang war.
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Christie Maroney - The Gold-Toothed Larrikin (art by Joseph Guillette)
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Tanner Smith - Is doomed.
Characters - Divide the Dawn: Fight
Anna Lonergan - Fiery redhead
Sadie Meehan née Leighton - Mother to John, wife of Dinny, sister to Darby
Mourning Mother Mary - Mother to thirteen, including Anna and Richie
Ligeia Guida DeSantis - Italian immigrant, fiancé of Darby
Dead Reilly - Attorney
Father Larkin - Irishtown Priest at St. Ann’s Roman Catholic Church
Maureen Egan - Former best friend of Doirean Egan
Kit Carroll - Prostitute at Adonis Social Club
Grace White - Prostitute at Adonis Social Club
Dinny’s White Hand
Liam Garrity - Mentee
Dinny Meehan - Leader
The Swede - Enforcer
Vincent Maher - Enforcer
Dockbosses
Cinders Connolly - Fulton Ferry Landing & Jay Street Terminal
The Lark - Baltic Terminal
Cute Charlie Red Donnelly - Navy Yard
Harry The Shiv Reynolds - Atlantic Terminal
Dance Gillen - Atlantic Terminal
Others
Beat McGarry - Old gang member, storyteller
Thomas Burke - Downstairs neighbor of Liam Garrity
Tanner Smith - Westside Manhattan leader of the Marginals
Whyo & Will - Ten year old Irishtown moppets
Bill’s White Hand
Wild Bill Lovett - World War I vet, former Meehan follower
Lieutenants
Non Connors - World War I vet
Joseph One-arm Flynn - World War I vet
Richie Pegleg Lonergan - Anna Lonergan’s brother
Frankie Byrne - Longtime Lovett follower
Others
Darby Leighton - Banished Whitehander
Abe Harms - The mole in Bill’s ear, former Richie Lonergan Crew member
Petey Cutpurse Behan - Trench Rabbit, former Richie Lonergan Crew member
Matty Martin - Trench Rabbit, former Richie Lonergan Crew member
The Law
Detective William Brosnan - Veteran, Brooklyn’s Irishtown beat
Patrolman Daniel Culkin - Son-in-law of Brosnan
Patrolman Ferris - Culkin’s partner
Captain Sullivan - Captain at Poplar Street Station
Commissioner Enright - Police Commissioner
Doirean Culkin - Brosnan’s daughter, Culkin’s wife
The Black Hand
Sixto Stabile - Owner of The Adonis Social Club, Harvard grad
The Prince o’ Pals Frankie Yale - Owner of The Harvard Inn, Coney Island
Lucy Buttacavoli - He of the aquiline nose
Stick’em Jack Stabile - Sixto’s father
The Waterfront Assembly
Jonathan G. Wolcott - President
Amadeusz Wiz the Lump Wisniewski
Garry fookin’ Barry - Wolcott’s chosen leader of the White Hand
Charles Pakenham - Reporter
Eleanor Allerton - President of Woman’s Christian Temperance League
The Leech Vandeleurs - Brooklyn slumlord
The International Longshoreman’s Association
Thos Carmody - Treasurer, New York
T.V. O’Connor - President
King Joe Ryan - Vice President
Paul Vaccarelli - Vice President
Other Characters (in alphabetical order)
James Behan - Trench Rabbit, Petey’s older brother
Henry Browne - Red Donnelly’s righthand, Thos Carmody informant
Joseph Burke - Thomas Burke’s disabled son
Mr. Campbell - Boru owner, lives across street from Meehan Brownstone
James Cleary - Garry fookin’ Barry’s lone crony
Costello - Member of the Marginals, Tanner Smith follower
Freddie Cuneen - Whitehander, best friends with Eddie Hughes
The Dropper - Manhattan shylock, labor slugger
Needles Ferry - Drug addict
Abby Garrity - Liam’s sister
Brigid Garrity - Liam’s sister
Joseph Garrity - Liam’s uncle
Mam Garrity - Liam’s mother
The Gas Drip Bard - Irishtown shanachie
The Ghost God - ?
James Hart - Teamster truck driver
Sean Healy - Trench Rabbit, Frankie Byrne follower
Biddy Hoolihan - Blind woman at Irishtown tavern
Eddie Hughes - Whitehander, best friends with Freddie Cuneen
Hotelier - Owner of Rockville Centre, Long Island hotel
Ragtime Howard - Whiskey drunkard
Mickey Kane - Murdered cousin of Dinny Meehan
Paddy Keenan - Bartender at Dock Laoders’ Club, Minister of Education
Feeble Philip Large - Cinders Connolly’s righthand
Lefty - Member of the Marginals, Tanner Smith follower
Celia Leighton - Frank Leighton’s wife
Colleen Rose Leighton - Darby & Ligeia’s baby
Pickles Leighton - Darby’s brother, in Sing Sing since 1913
Rose Leighton - Sadie’s mother
Frank Leighton - Darby’s brother, Sadie’s cousin, Thos Carmody informant
John Lonergan - Anna/Richie father
Tiny Thomas & Ellen Lonergan - Dead from infection & grippe
Willie Lonergan - Anna/Richie Younger brother
Honora Lynch - Wife of tavern keeper
Mr. Lynch - Tavern keeper, Greenwich Village
Happy Maloney - One-legged World War I vet, Sadie’s escort
Christie The Larrikin Maroney - Former Brooklyn gang leader
Charles McGowan - Former Meehan right hand, murdered in Sing Sing
Emma McGowan - Liam’s first love, died of Spanish Influenza in 1918
Chisel McGuire - Flimflam man, singer & barker
John L’il Dinny Meehan - Sadie’s son
Dago Tom Montague - Whitehander
Big Dick Morissey - The Lark’s righthand
Mrs. O’Flaherty - Lived above Lonergan bicycle shop, original Irishtown settler
Timmy Bucks Quilty - Trench Rabbit, former Lonergan Crew member
James Quilty - Trench Rabbit, Timmy’s older brother
Miko O’Dea - Liam’s childhood friend
Jidge Seaman - Trench Rabbit, Frankie Byrne follower
Shanachie - Itinerant storyteller in Ireland
Silverman - Murdered in 1916, for Wolcott thug
La Sorrisa - Italian recruiter of prostitutes
Johnny Spanish - Manhattan shylock, labor slugger, gave loan to Tanner Smith
