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Frank McCourt

Angela’s Ashes Loses Its Voice

By Joseph McBride, Contributor
February / March 2000

March 10, 2023 by Leave a Comment

Anyone who has read Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes -- and by now that probably takes in about half the planet -- knows that what makes McCourt's memoir of an impoverished Irish childhood so magical is the unique "voice" the author uses to tell the story. McCourt struggled for many years until he "started writing in the voice of a child, immediate, urgent and without hindsight … [Read more...] about Angela’s Ashes Loses Its Voice

Christmas Movies

By Tom Deignan
IA Newsletter December 18, 2021

December 17, 2021 by Leave a Comment

“It’s the holiday season…” So sings Andy Williams - as have many other crooners - in the classic Christmas song “Happy Holidays.” For many Irish Americans, that “holiday season” means it’s time for our annual trip to Macy’s in New York City where, in 1947, Irish Hollywood legend Maureen O’Hara portrayed a busy holiday parade planner, in the beloved Yuletide flick Miracle on … [Read more...] about Christmas Movies

Hibernia Happenings

By Irish America Staff

January 2000

October 28, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Galway Guide Is a Bird in the Hand Visitors to Galway and other parts of the West of Ireland are well advised to pick up a handy new magazine which contains extensive information on where to eat, dance, drink, hang out and generally just be seen. Magpie magazine, launched last year by the highly successful Galway Advertiser group, also features regular articles on a … [Read more...] about Hibernia Happenings

A Night to Remember


By Frank McCourt

January 2000

October 20, 2021 by Leave a Comment

Frank McCourt's second book, 'Tis, follows, where Angela's Ashes leaves off with the young Limerick man making his way in New York. In the following excerpt, Frank's pal Paddy McGovern takes him to an Irish dance hall. Paddy Arthur McGovern warns me that if I keep on listening to that noisy jazz music I'll wind up like the Lennon brothers so American I'll forget I’m Irish … [Read more...] about A Night to Remember

‘Tis Frank

By Patricia Harty , Editor-in-Chief

January 2000

October 14, 2021 by Leave a Comment

How are you? Running, running, running from place to place, signing books and talking. How does it feel to have both books number one on The New York Times best-seller lists? Well, as someone said to me on the phone from New York, "Thank God, you are keeping Dutch out of first place." Don't know when that will change. ['Tis] can't stay up there forever, and I'm practicing … [Read more...] about ‘Tis Frank

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March 31, 1855

Charlotte Brontë, author of “Jane Eyre,” died on this day in 1885. She was born in 1816 to the Reverend Patrick Brontë (formerly Brunty) and Maria Branwell. Maria died of cancer while her six children were still very young. Charlotte’s father sent her away to school, where conditions were so terrible that Charlotte’s two older sisters died of tuberculosis. Her experiences at this school later served as the inspiration for the fictional Lowood School in “Jane Eyre.” Charlotte’s remaining siblings died in quick succession not long after this, her most famous novel, was published. She reluctantly married the Reverend Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854, and soon became pregnant. She died of pneumonia while pregnant, just thirty-nine years old.

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