Something Bigger: Bringing an Irish-American family saga to vivid life

Sheila Killian has deftly fictionalised and recreated the events that led to her grand-aunt leaving Alabama and moving north to New York

Sheila Killian’s Something Bigger succeeds in bringing a little-known period of history to life, from an Irish-speaking mother keening day and night on Marcella’s voyage to Eamon de Valera’s American fundraising tour.