The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy.
Colum McCannI have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year!
Colum McCannThere are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.
Colum McCannThere are fewer and fewer Jews in Ireland, but we still have one of the most famous Jewish characters in literary history, of course, in Leopold Bloom.
Colum McCann