Tom Deignan Writer
  • New York
  • Freelance

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
9 months ago
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Ulysses S. Grant, the first US president to ever visit Ireland, died on this day in 1885

"I am by birth a citizen of a country where there are more Irishmen, either native born or the descendants of Irishme...

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10 months ago
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A bridge to the future - looking back and moving foward

Reflecting on the 1,000s of columns my own chapter in the Irish American dream and looking ahead to my family's futur...

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10 months ago
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New MCNY exhibit features dozens of Irish films

As part of its 100th anniversary, MCNY has a new exhibition called “This Is New York: 100 Years of the City in Art an...

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11 months ago
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Conservative Irish-American rage as LA Dodgers honor Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

At first, the Dodgers said they would no longer honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence with its Community Hero Awa...

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11 months ago
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America's migrant mess in black and white

It's gonna be a wild ride for a few weeks, especially in New York where authorities attempt to manage the migrant mess.

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12 months ago
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The real tragedy of Southie

In "Small Mercies," Dennis Lehane's harsh observations are more powerful because he knows there’s more to this story,...

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12 months ago
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Dirty lies and ugly truth

No one is above criticism. But neither is any critic infallible.

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12 months ago
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New book explores how Notre Dame fought the KKK out of South Bend

Timothy Egan explores the gruesome rise and fall of the 1920s Ku Klux Klan through the misadventures of a hateful bru...

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about 1 year ago
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Big question to be asked about taxpayers and Catholic schools in the US

Should the US government, in this day and age, be doing business with an organization with a gruesome history of prot...

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about 1 year ago
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You can mock Blarney Biden, but ...

We can’t run around telling folks that the past is important, that history matters, only to then mock and denigrate h...

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about 1 year ago
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Immigrant voters are becoming increasingly conservative in NY

A recent New York Times report entitled "Asian Americans shifting right" focused on the increasingly conservative vot...

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about 1 year ago
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It's a hell of a country

Just like the Irish in the days of the Five Points, immigrants are actually saving America. From hell?

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