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Tales from the Deep

By Laoise MacReamoinn

January/February 1997

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Colum McCann, one of the hottest new Irish writers on the literary scene, talks about his career with Laoise MacReamoinn.Colum McCann, the New York-based Dublin-born writer who burst on to the American literary scene last year with his first novel, Songdogs, which the New York Times called "powerful, strong and sure," and whose first collection of short stories, Fishing the … [Read more...] about Tales from the Deep

The Steward of Irish Theater

By Diana Barth

January/February 1997

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Although the brilliance of actor Donal McCann is well-known abroad – even a Dublin cabdriver praised him as a "great actor" to this writer on the trip from the airport to the city center -- McCann's name seems a well-kept secret in the U.S. That oversight should be corrected when Donal McCann opens, in the starting role, in Sebastian Barry's luminous, moving, poetic memory play … [Read more...] about The Steward of Irish Theater