Colum McCann "TransAtlantic"

This event was recorded at Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, on June 12, 2013. More information is available at www.politics-pr...
In TransAtlantic, Colum McCann, winner of the National Book Award for Let the Great World Spin, weaves a web of stories, times, histories, and fictions between Ireland and America, charting early pilots in a daring oceanic crossing from Newfoundland, the 1840s passage of famine victims to America-and the return of the their descendants to Ireland-as well as political visits by Americans from Frederick Douglass to Senator George Mitchell.

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