Peter K. Fallon

Son of Irish immigrants, Peter K. Fallon was born on Long Island (NY) in 1954. Through grammar and high schools, he was educated by Dominican sisters and spent ten years teaching at Molloy College in Rockville Centre, NY, an independent college founded by the Amityville Dominican sisters. Winner of the 2007 Marshall McLuhan Award for Outstanding Book in the Field of Media Ecology, for his book "Printing, Literacy, and Education in Eighteenth Century Ireland : Why the Irish Speak English," …