The Black Donnellys

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Season 1 Breakdown

Normal Episodes: 12
TV Specials: 0
TV Movies: 0

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Season 1 Guide (2007)

	1x01 Pilot The Donnellys are four young, working-class Irish brothers involved in New York City's organized crime. Detectives investigate Joey Ice Cream, a life-long ...	Feb. 26, 2007
	1x02 A Stone of the Heart While the Donnellys await on word surrounding Sean's condition, Jimmy sits in a police holding cell. Tommy and Kevin have trouble accepting their role ...	Mar. 05, 2007
	1x03 The World Will Break Your Heart A guilt-ridden Tommy is shocked when Kate, Huey's widow, asks him to hold Huey's wake at the Firecracker. At the wake, the brothers discover that their ...	Mar. 12, 2007
	1x04 Lies Tommy is hit with the hard realization that the Italian mob boss, Nicky Cottero, is not one to mess with when he threatens the brothers' mother, Helen. ...	Mar. 19, 2007
	1x05 Run Like Hell Tommy gets thrust into Jimmy and Kevin's bookmaking when one of his friends, Maxwell, is about to get punished for not paying up. Tommy decides to track ...	Mar. 26, 2007
	1x06 The Only Thing Sure As Tommy and Kevin collect payments, Jimmy repaints the bar and tries to keep Sean away from the business they've been working. Meanwhile, a flashback ...	Apr. 02, 2007
	1x07 In Each One a Savior Tommy helps a woman who wants to get rid of the drug dealers in her apartment building, but ends up finding that doing so will be harder than he thought. ...	N/A
	1x08 All of Us Are in the Gutter Tommy is finally able to pursue his passion in life -- art. Kate is able to help him land a job at an art studio, but Tommy finds it hard to break away ...	N/A
	1x09 When the Door Opens [add summary]	N/A
	1x10 Wasn't That Enough? [add summary]	N/A
	1x11 The Black Drop [add summary]	N/A
	1x12 Easy Is the Way [add summary]	N/A

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Season 1 Characters

Tommy Donnelly	played by Jonathan Tucker
Jimmy Donnelly	played by Tom Guiry
Jenny Reilly	played by Olivia Wilde (II)
Kevin Donnelly	played by Billy Lush
Sean Donnelly	played by Michael Stahl-David
Nicky Cottero	played by Kirk Acevedo
Joey Ice Cream	played by Keith Nobbs
Derek 'Dokey' Farrell	played by Peter Greene
Earl	played by Patrick Brennan (VII)
Vinnie Culiari	played by Brian Tarantina
Joanie	played by Betsy Beutler
Helen Donnelly	played by Kate Mulgrew
Jenny's Pop	played by Kevin Conway
Young Tommy	played by Max Miner
Jackie	played by Brian Donahue
Whitey	played by Kevin Corrigan
Samson	played by James Badge Dale
Young Jimmy	played by Jimmy Walsh
Bobby Donnelly	played by John Bolger
Kate Farrell	played by Molly Schaffer
Alo	played by Michael Rispoli
Kim	played by Adelia Saunders
Young Kevin	played by T.J. Stanton

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Season 1 Videos

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Season 1 Quotes

	Season 1 / Episode 1: - Pilot Tommy Donnelly: [Tommy walks outside to find Sean kissing the girl Tommy had just asked out] Hey! Hey Sean! What the hell are you doing? Sean Donnelly: Are you guys like seeing each other? 'Cause I didn't know.
	Season 1 / Episode 3: - The World Will Break Your Heart Joey Ice Cream: [narrating voice over] There are a lot of guys in my neighborhood who would still be alive today if they'd just shut up and gone to bed the night before.

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Season 1 Trivia

Episode 02 - Quote at the opening of the episode: "Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart." -W. B. Yeats, Easter 1916
Episode 04 - Jonathon Tucker (Tommy Donnelly) played a protective older brother in the movie Hostage.
Episode 01 - Keith Nobbs and Thomas Guiry appeared together in an episode of "Law & Order: Criminal Intent." The episode, "The Good", aired May 14, 2006.
Episode 01 - The exterior shots for the Firecracker Lounge were filmed at the Shannon Pot, a bar at the corner of Jackson Ave. and Davis St. in Long Island City, Queens. The exterior shots for the Minetta Tavern were filmed at the real-life Minetta Tavern at 113 MacDougal St. in New York's Greenwich Village. ...
Episode 01 - The Black Donnellys is loosely based on Co-Creator Bobby Moresco's childhood in Hell's Kitchen, New York.

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