 During this time, he worked on his first collection of stories and taught English part-time as a foreign language.In 1994, they moved to New York where he, his wife and their three children Isabella, John Michael, and Christian still reside.On June 16, 2009, McCann published a Bloomsday remembrance in "The New York Times" of his long-deceased grandfather, whom he met only once, and of finding him again in the pages of James Joyce's "Ulysses".