[3] He has returned many times since then, and now owns the small cottage in west County Clare that was the home of his great-great-grandfather, and which was given as a wedding gift in the 19th century.
[1] Lynch's writing in his memoir Booking Passage: We Irish and Americans has been described as "slightly old-timey — wise with an almost iridescent quality".
His work has been the subject of two documentary films: Learning Gravity, directed by Kathel Black for Little Bird Productions UK, aired on the BBC and RTÉ while PBS Frontline's The Undertaking, a film by Karen O'Conner and Miri Navasky, aired in October 2007 on PBS stations nationwide.
He is an adjunct professor in the graduate creative writing program at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
He has appeared on C-SPAN, MSNBC, The Today Show, and the PBS Bill Moyers series, On Our Own Terms.