![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From the violent battlefields of the Civil War to the ice lakes of northern Missouri, it is her youngest daughter Emily who eventually finds her way back to Ireland.Ĭan we pass from the new world to the old? How does the past shape the future? In TransAtlantic, National Book Award-winning Colum McCann has achieved an outstanding act of literary bravura. On his travels he inspires a young maid to go to New York to embrace a free world, but the land does not always fulfill its promises for her. Frederick Douglass, a black American slave, lands in Ireland to champion ideas of democracy and freedom, only to find a famine unfurling at his feet. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached?ġ845. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years.ġ998. Emily Ehrlich watches as two young airmen, Alcock and Brown, emerge from the carnage of the First World War to pilot the very first non-stop transatlantic flight from Newfoundland to the west of Ireland. ![]()
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