Frank McCourt

Francis (Frank) McCourt ( Brooklyn (New York) , August 19th 1930 - Manhattan (New York) , July 19 2009 ) was an Irish-American writer who until the end of his life, debuted with autobiographical books about his childhood in Ireland and later in life in the United States .



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 ==[Life  edit ] == Frank McCourt is the eldest son of seven children of Malachy and Angela McCourt. They live in Brooklyn. The death of his newborn sister loses his father (Malachy McCourt) in his old alcohol addiction . After visiting his aunts lent by the grandmother money to bring the family back to Ireland.
 * 1 Life
 * 2 Bibliography
 * 3 Prizes
 * 4 Adaptation

The family is coming in the only divided country and moves on to Northern Ireland, where they stay for some time with his paternal grandparents inCounty Antrim . Since there to find work in the countryside of County Antrim is for his father and his grandparents, the family can not accommodate borrows his grandfather's family money for the bus to Dublin .

Dublin is hoping his father to receive a benefit because he has fought in the IRA and the Irish Free State state pensions and benefits provided to veterans in the Irish War of Independence(1919-1921). His name is not found, and further investigation is not offered after his father asked what the money is given to him to give him and the young Frank by bus to bring back volume to the bus station in the center at the level of a beer.

In Dublin, the family arrived so no money and no income. They are assisted by the local police station where they stay overnight and to garner money for the family by train to the birthplace of his mother Limerick bring.

In Limerick it appears difficult for his father to come to the barge. A point, there is little work in Limerick and point two is the distrust of a man from the North (Northern Ireland which remained independent after the independence of Ireland in 1922). When his father then finds work, is the salary paid in cash on a Friday drowned after a few weeks in the pubs which in turn will result in dismissal. This allows the family falls into abject poverty.

During the emergency (the Second World War in Ireland) finds his father as like many other Irish work in the war industry in England (here the salaries were much higher than in Ireland itself so that a family could live in luxury). Unfortunately, the wealth Malachy McCourt proves too much and disappears most of his salary in the cash registers of the pubs of Coventry . His mother can no longer claim social assistance from the government and despite help from the charity St Vincent de Paul (which is still operating in Ireland in the year today) is terminated them rent and pulls the family with a cousin of his mother. His mother even have a relationship with her cousin to ensure food and lodging for her and her offspring. Frank flight after a fight out of the house and moves in with his uncle.

Frank McCourt in this time work (on his fourteenth birthday) as a telegram delivery boy and later as a writer of collection letters to the local fief wife (a wealthy lady from the neighborhood where the poor against usury could borrow money). After some time, he finds the woman dead in her home and with a grab from the cash box plus the money he had saved from his jobs he has enough on his return to America (where many Irish people are carried away in the years to to find a better life).

Frank McCourt (2007)In America, he has some jobs until he has to enlist in the US Army (as he had US citizenship by birth) in the Korean War . After returning to the "normal" society, he finally finds work as a teacher what he will do to his retirement.

After many speculations and moral support of his wife and daughter, he decides to put his childhood on paper. His childhood in Ireland is described in the book Angela's Ashes and the first years as a young man in his book Tis.

After the release and success of his books come top stories about alcohomisbruik by Frank McCourt himself (he might have been under other so drunk during the asverspreding his mother that he had lost the urn) and untruths in his book. McCourt himself these stories largely denied.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Frank McCourt, who is also a form of skin cancer had, dies at the age of 78 because of a meningitis . <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Bibliography  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Prizes  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">For Angela's Ashes in 1996 he received the National Book Critics Circle Award and the 1997 Pulitzer Prize, both in the category ( auto ) biography . ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Filming  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:20.3636360168457px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Angela's Ashes was filmed in 1999 under the Dutch title of my mother's ashes .
 * 1996 - Angela's Ashes, translated as my mother's ashes
 * 1999 - Tis, translated as The New World
 * 2005 - Teacher Man, translated as Master!
 * 2007 - Angela and the Baby Jesus