FRANK McCOURT, AUTHOR OF ANGELA’S ASHES DIES AT 78 – RIP

In Angela’s Ashes, teacher turned writer, penned a memoir that revealed Irish poverty to the world. The son of a drunk, was much loved the world over, for the words he penned. 

McCourt famously wrote inAngela’s Ashes, in a passage that’s worth quoting in full. “The happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests, bullying schoolmasters; the English and all the terrible things they did to us for 800 long years.”

For  more, got to TIME magazine here. RIP – Frank McCourt.