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Last week she went house hunting in Dublin and this week, Marie Louise O’Donnell broadened her reach to the country and Marie Louise joined Pat in studio.
1919. 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. Among the letters being carried on the aircraft is one which will not be opened for almost a hundred years. 1998. Senator George Mitchell criss-crosses the ocean in search of an elusive Irish peace. How many more bereaved mothers and grandmothers must he meet before an agreement can be reached? 1845.
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. 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. 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.
Can 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. Intricately crafted, poetic and deeply affecting it weaves together personal stories to explore the fine line between what is real and what is imagined, and the tangled skein of connections that make up our lives.
Colm McCann spoke to Pat.
Transatlantic by Colum Mc Cann is published by Bloomsbury and is priced at £18.99.
The Oireachtas Health Committee is hearing submissions from psychiatrists today as part of the hearings into the Heads of the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill. Reporter Valerie Cox spoke to Pat.
The G8 summit will be held in County Fermanagh next month. And with the leaders of the world's eight richest countries set to attend, Barack Obama, Angela Merkel, David Cameron included set to attend, it will be one of the most high-profile events ever witnessed in Northern Ireland. And one of the biggest security operations in recent years. The PSNI want to buy two remote-controlled aircraft to assist them with the task.
Pat was joined by security analyst, Tom Clonan.
The Chelsea Flower Show is celebrating its centenary year ......In a good year there are usually at least a handful of gardens that enthrall the visitor.... Dermot O Neill is at Chelsea for us and he spoke to Pat after a quick tour of the Gardens.
