Frank McCourt, author, has died

[Colonel MacNeal]

Frank McCourt, Irish born NYC author of "Angela's Ashes" has died. He was 78. Great author, and apparently quite a local character in NYC.

He will be missed.

[Colonel MacNeal]

He is survived by his younger brother, actor Malachy McCourt, also of New York City.

[KFCarter]

A few years ago we had the pleasure of presenting a play he co-wrote with Malachy, entitled "A Couple of Blaguards".

Frank McCourt was a great writer. That's sad news.

[Tartan Shortbread Jock]

Hello Colonel MacNeal, how are you.
What sad news, Mr McCourt was
a very good writer.

[Galician]

May he rest in peace. Just one correction, McCourt was born here in New York, then raised in Ireland.

[vmac3205]

Rest in peace, Frank McCourt.

[Colonel MacNeal]

I believe he opened "Angela's Ashes" with the following:

"Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood."

[Galician]

wow, maybe that's why an Irish Franciscan Brother I knew hated that book.

[dfmacliam]

I am sorry to hear this news, he will be missed.

[dfmacliam]

An Irish Catholic childhood, back in those days, couldn't have been so miserable.. My mom still smiles at the stories she tells us of her childhood.