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Sidewalks with Tom Deignan

On Race, Irish Can’t Win
IN the gritty 1950s movie Blackboard Jungle, Glenn Ford plays a teacher trying to tame a multicultural class of tough New York City students.

Pope-Bashing and the Pulitzer 24 April 2008

IN 2001, a poet by the name of Amiri Baraka was the poet laureate of New Jersey. In the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center that year, he wrote a poem called “Somebody Blew Up America,” which hinted at certain Zionist/Jewish conspiracies re

Teaching the Pope a Lesson? 14 April 2008

NEXT week, amidst ceremonies both solemn and celebratory, Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in the U.S. The pontiff will spend five days here, in Washington, D.C. and New York. He is scheduled to visit Ground Zero and also say mass at Yankee Stadium.

New Debate Over Old Horror 02 April 2008

THIS past Monday, March 31, acclaimed Irish writer Joseph O’Connor gave a talk at the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street, on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. The basis of the talk was a new project which he will release this summer.

Controversial Ex-Priest Guides Paterson 26 March 2008

DO you know how you can tell it has been a crazy couple of weeks up in Albany?

What if the Irish Never Came? 19 March 2008

“I’M sorry, but I have to correct you,” said the old man with large glasses and a cane. We were talking about Archbishop John Hughes, “Dagger” John, as he was called, the Tyrone-born priest who helped made New York livable for the Famine Irish.

Death in a Lonely City 06 March 2008

PAUL Devaney is seen standing near the ocean. He’d come from Ireland to another island, one located between the Bronx and Queens. Devaney is talking about his great uncle, Mike Kilmurray, who emigrated to New York City.

The Irish ‘Saint’ of New Immigrants 28 February 2008

REVEREND Paul Jervis was born in Guyana, and now administers a Roman Catholic Church located on the hardscrabble streets of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. Jervis and St. Peter Claver Roman Catholic Church serve a diverse array of immigrant and African

Lessons of the Irish Pimp 14 February 2008

WITH the love of Valentine’s Day in the air, I really want to focus on positive things.

Killers Back on the Street 31 January 2008

THE administration of New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is coming under fire following the release of over 200 convicted killers from prison. Among the killers are two who were charged with gunning down Irish New Yorkers in high profile murder cases.

Saving Private Mohan 24 January 2008

THE photo is a striking one. A burly man with long, shaggy hair sits at a table. He is clearly exhausted.