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Thursday
May 22
Harbour Commissioner’s Office 8.00pm
Yes it falls outside the timescale of the Festival
but this one was just too good to resist.
Frank McCourt was born in 1930 in Manhattan, New
York, to Irish immigrant parents. He grew up in
Limerick, Ireland, and at the age of nineteen, returned
to America.
Surviving initially through a string of casual jobs,
spending every spare minute reading books from the
public library, Frank began a process of self-education
and improvement which led, eventually, to a long
career as a high-school teacher.
Then in his sixties, Frank McCourt sat down and
began writing about his past. The tales of his childhood
that he had told many times to his classes at school
and in the bars of New York soon took shape as the
highly acclaimed memoir which is Angela’s Ashes.
Published initially in America, it went straight
into the bestseller lists and then crossed the Atlantic
to take the bookshops by storm in his native Ireland,
in the rest of Europe, and around the world.
Angela’s Ashes went on to win the Pulitzer
Prize, the Literature Award of the Royal Society
of Literature and the LA Times Award. Angela’s
Ashes was followed by ‘Tis, another rapturously
received, multi-million selling account of Frank’s
adult life in America.
Frank McCourt lives with his wife, Ellen, in New
York City and Connecticut. In this special appearance
for the Festival, Frank will read from his work
and discuss his extraordinary writing life.
In association with The Creative Writers’
Network
Tickets £8/£6 Concession. Available
from the Festival Office on 028 9023 2403
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