Women get the short shrift in history. It's been largely written and dictated by men, or at least men believe that we own it, and women have really been in those quieter moments at the edge of history. But, really, they're the ones who are turning the cogs and the wheels and allowing things like the peace process to happen.
Colum McCannThe tunnels of our lives connect, coming to daylight at the oddest moments, and then plunge us into the dark again. We return to the lives of those who have gone before us, a perplexing mรถbius strip until we come home, eventually, to ourselves.
Colum McCannShe's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours.
Colum McCannAnakana Schofield is part of a new wave of wonderful Irish fiction-international in scope and electrically alive.
Colum McCann