Week 24: Angela's Ashes

Frank McCourt was an Irish-American writer and Teacher. He recounts a childhood of utter destitution and extreme poverty, between the early 1930s until the late 1940s. When they were in New York his family struggled quite a lot as the great depression had just started, but things took a turn for the worse when they moved to Limerick in Ireland. 

 

Books mentioned:

‘Tis by Frank McCourt

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

Article about Angela’s Ashes: https://www.irishpost.com/entertainment/angelas-ashes-7-things-may-not-know-pulitzer-prize-winning-memoir-author-169766#:~:text=Paddy%20Malone%2C%20a%20schoolmate%20of,'misery'%20of%20Limerick%20city.