Forever Seamus
The Pen Rests<p>One great Irish writer bids another goodbye: novelist Colum McCann says poet Seamus Heaney, who <a href="/content/dailybeast/articles/2013/08/30/seamus-heaney-1939-2013-accessible-yes-and-beautiful.html">died Friday at the age of 74</a>, was more important to the idea of Ireland than anyone else.</p>
Do National Writers Still Exist?
In the preface to a collection of new European fiction, novelist Colum McCann asks just what exactly defines national writers in the age of slippery identities and globalization.
How Long, How Long Did We Sing that Song?
When Britain’s David Cameron apologized for the Bloody Sunday killings he healed a deep wound, says novelist Colum McCann—and appropriately for Bloomsday there were echoes of Joyce in his words.