Gangs of New York2002

Walter 'Monk' McGinn:
I've got forty-four notches on my club. Do you know what they're for? They're to remind me what I owe God when I die. My father was killed in battle too, in Ireland, in the streets, fighting those who would take as their privilege what could only be got and held by the decimation of a race. That war is a thousand years old and more. We never expected it to follow us here. It didn't. It was waiting for us when we landed. Your father tried to carve out a corner of this land for his tribe. That was him, that was his 'Dead Rabbits'. I often wondered, if he had lived a bit longer: would he have wanted a bit more?