Tom Deignan
Tom Deignan is the author of "Irish Americans: Coming to America" (Barron’s) and served as a contributing writer for the book "Irish American Chronicle" (Publications International Ltd.).
He writes the weekly Sidewalks column for the Irish Voice newspaper and contributes a monthly Op Ed column to the Newark Star Ledger.
His writing has appeared in newspapers such as the New York Times, Washington Post and Irish Independent, and magazines such as Commonweal, America, Publisher's Weekly and Irish America. Currently an English teacher in Brooklyn, Deignan has taught history, cinema and English at CUNY, St. John’s University and Bowling Green State University.
Born in Staten Island, he lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children. He is currently working on a novel set in Brooklyn on the eve of World War II.
Latest Stories
The really scary thing about Stephen King’s clown horror “It”
Choosing hope over hate midst the rising death toll of 9/11
The forces of good and evil in Netflix’s “The Keepers”
The Force riddled with irritating Irish American stereotypes
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Remembering Tom Fleming from the “Irish ghetto” to the mainstream
Steve Bannon’s Catholic sins
Irish Great Hunger tells its lessons but will we listen?
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