An extract from "The Writing Irish of New York," a collection of essays featuring work by Colum McCann, Billy Collins, Luanne Rice, Malachy McCourt, and many more. Many aspiring writers have uprooted ...

Learn more about Colum McCann's Story Swap project. When Colum McCann came to the U.S. from Ireland in the early 1980s, he set out on a cross-country bicycle trip to get to know his new country and ...

On an August morning in 1974, a man named Philippe Petit steps off of the roof of the World Trade Center's South Tower and onto a tightrope. On the ground, New Yorkers look up in disbelief as the man ...

Colum Eastwood has announced that he will stand down as leader of the SDLP in October. He became leader of the party in 2015 and is the MP for Foyle. His resignation comes just eight weeks after he ...

How lost are we without our devices? Or putting it more simply, as novelist Colum McCann might: just how isolated are we? His new novel "Twist" asks big questions through a story of characters ...

Irish-American author Colum McCann has spent the better part of his life inhabiting others in his novels. To write Dancer, McCann learned how to pirouette with Russia's Kirov Ballet. He spent time in ...

Colum Murphy covered China's transportation, heavy industry and auto industries, and other subjects for The Wall Street Journal. He reported business and politics from around Asia for Dow Jones and ...

In “Believing,” The New York Times is exploring how religion and spirituality shape our lives. The reporter behind it found examples in houses of worship, in sports stadiums and at Taylor Swift ...

Colum McCann deserts the working-class backgrounds of his Irish novels to write a fictional life of Rudolph Nureyev. He invents a dancing prose style-floating, glittering, suspended in bright air. We ...