![]() ![]() They lived in a rain-soaked slum, the parents and children sharing one bed together, McCourt's father drinking away what little money they had. Unable to find steady work in Belfast or Dublin and beset by Malachy Senior's alcoholism, the McCourt family returned to their mother's native Limerick, where they sank even deeper into poverty. His brother Malachy was 3 and the twins were 2 years old. ![]() In fall of 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression, the family moved back to Ireland. Frank McCourt lived in New York with his parents and four younger siblings: Malachy, born in 1931 twins Oliver and Eugene, born in 1932 and a younger sister, Margaret, who died just 21 days after birth, on March 5, 1934. ![]() ![]() (Octo– January 11, 1985), of Toome, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, who was aligned with the IRA during the Irish War of Independence, and Angela Sheehan (January 1, 1908 – December 27, 1981) from Limerick. Early life and education įrank McCourt was born in New York City's Brooklyn borough, on August 19, 1930, the eldest child of Irish Catholic immigrants Malachy Gerald McCourt, Sr. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Angela's Ashes, a tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood. Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997įrancis McCourt (August 19, 1930 – July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer. ![]()
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