Colm McCann Documentary on/in New York RTE1

[C. Flower]

I've really enjoyed reading his books, so I'm hoping this will be enjoyable too.

[electionlit]

It was another excellent documentary from RTE. Really enjoyable .
Hes a pleasant chap and was thrilled to see all the old movie films of the McCann family. (As an aside I dug up some of the home movies at home and put them on for my young lad who was 3 at the time a few years back... He couldn't understand why he wasn't in any of them!)
His Father was an expert on roses and wrote a number of books on roses and also at least one childrens book about football (fiction).

[NotANumber]

I saw this documentary on television myself and he struck me as one those overrated liberal writers that Irish media constantly promote like Roddy Doyle. I'm more of an Alexander Solzhenitsyn man myself.

Remember reading a pro-multiculural piece of his in Vincent Brownes rag The Village where he namechecked the song "Whats So Funny about Peace Love and Understanding by Nick Cave". I mean how can anyone mix up Nick Cave and Nick Lowe.

[C. Flower]

I saw this documentary on television myself and he struck me as one those overrated liberal writers that Irish media constantly promote like Roddy Doyle. I'm more of an Alexander Solzhenitsyn man myself.

Remember reading a pro-multiculural piece of his in Vincent Brownes rag The Village where he namechecked the song "Whats So Funny about Peace Love and Understanding by Nick Cave". I mean how can anyone mix up Nick Cave and Nick Lowe.

He's not Samuel Beckett, but I found Dancer an immensely readable book.
Over-rated - not in Ireland, where he's been virtually ignored, in spite of mega success in the States.