# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Tales of the Immigrant City: IN AMERICA, Q&A with author Colum McCann
- **Event Start and End Date**: Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Uptown Film Center presents IN AMERICA, the first in its 3-film series, Tales of the Immigrant City, in partnership with The New York Historical.
Q&A with award-winning author Colum McCann

Director: Jim Sheridan, 2002, 105 min, Rated R. With: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Sarah Bolger, Djimon Hounsou 

Set in early-1980s New York, In America follows an Irish immigrant family arriving illegally in Hell's Kitchen, carrying grief, hope, and the fragile promise of a new beginning. Through the eyes of two young daughters, Jim Sheridan’s deeply personal film captures the exhilaration and hardship of starting over, the intimacy of immigrant communities, and the quiet acts of solidarity that make survival possible in an unfamiliar city.

About Colum McCann: 
Colum McCann is a celebrated NYC-based Irish novelist and National Book Award winner for Let the Great World Spin. Across his fiction and nonfiction, he captures the layered lives of immigrants and explores how individuals navigate displacement, loss, and belonging in an ever-changing world, often using New York City as a crossroads of global stories.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/manhattan/tales-of-the-immigrant-city-in-america-qanda-with-author-colum-mccann/200029793588419
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, entertainment
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Manhattan
- **state**: NY
- **country**: United States
- **location**: New-York Historical Society
- **lat**: 40.7793
- **long**: -73.97438
- **full address**: New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park W, New York, NY 10024-5152, United States, Manhattan

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is Tales of the Immigrant City: IN AMERICA, Q&A with author Colum McCann being held?
  - **A:** Tales of the Immigrant City: IN AMERICA, Q&A with author Colum McCann takes place on Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm to Fri, 20 Mar, 2026 at 06:30 pm at New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park W, New York, NY 10024-5152, United States, Manhattan.
- **Q**: Who is organizing Tales of the Immigrant City: IN AMERICA, Q&A with author Colum McCann?
  - **A:** Tales of the Immigrant City: IN AMERICA, Q&A with author Colum McCann is organized by Uptown Film Center.

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