Tom Deignan Writer
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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.

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Irish Voice, Irish Central

345 Articles
over 1 year ago
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Mighty Yankee Aaron Judge rises while baseball itself faces a meek future?

Mighty Yankee Aaron Judge's career is on the up as New York Mets and Yankees set to fight for World Series but a grou...

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over 1 year ago
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Who should tell Irish America's stories? Flawless human specimen Zac Efron?

As the debate about Meg Smaker's documentary "Jihad Rehab" continues, it's worth asking if Zac Efron is the right per...

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over 1 year ago
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Who should tell Irish America's stories? Flawless human specimen Zac Efron?

Is Zac Efron the right person to be playing Irish American working-class Vietnam hero John “Chickie” Donohue in "The ...

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over 1 year ago
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The killers and the Queen

"As politicians in the American south squabble with politicians in the north, a bunch of immigrants are caught in the...

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over 1 year ago
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Anti-immigrants, white-supremacy and abortion confusion

A recent Salon.com post raised powerful, but confusing, questions about Irish immigration. The post was entitled (dee...

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over 1 year ago
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Abortion confusion reigns supreme

A recent Salon.com post raised powerful, but confusing, questions about Irish immigration. The post was entitled (dee...

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over 1 year ago
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Is the Catholic Church becoming hip?

For some folk, who grew up with an endless stream of hip social justice campaigns, the least hip religion in the worl...

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over 1 year ago
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US immigration is neither a blessing or a curse

As Greg Abbott continues to bus asylum seekers from Texas to New York and D.C., we are reminded that immigration is a...

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over 1 year ago
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Biden, the Mob, and and an Irish American showgirl

A twisted family history. Fortunes made and lost. The mob. The mysterious death of an Irish American showgirl. Is thi...

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over 1 year ago
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What Peaky Blinders can teach us about extreme violence rocking the US

They say August is always a slow news month. Which makes me a little nervous about the fall.

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over 1 year ago
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Remembering Vin Scully, the voice of the LA Dodgers who "lost his Irish lilt"

Frank Doyle grew up in Brooklyn, and Brooklyn is cool these days. So you have to assume Frank Doyle is kind of cool, ...

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almost 2 years ago
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John Quinn: A true Irish arts rebel

Irish American John Quinn is "a lesser-known Irish arts giant also getting his due these days."

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