Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/conversation-colum-mccann-author-of-transatlantic Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Story Frederick Douglass traveling through Ireland in 1845 to stir up support for his abolitionist cause. The first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919. Sen. George Mitchell in 1998 trying to forge a peace treaty in Northern Ireland. Those actual people and events are at the heart of a the new novel "TransAtlantic." Author Colum McCann talks with Jeffrey Brown about his latest book.