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1. www.irishtimes.com › culture › booksMalachy McCourt’s final interview: ‘We’d a miserable Irish ...

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   Apr 3, 2024 · Malachy McCourt’s final interview: ‘We’d a miserable Irish childhood, but I escaped all of that and I had a happy life’ The actor, author, bartender and radio DJ wants to be remembered as ...

2. www.irishtimes.com › obituaries › 2024/03/23Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a ...

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   Mar 23, 2024 · Malachy McCourt, who fled a melancholic childhood in Ireland for the US, where he became something of a professional Irish man as a thespian, publican and best-selling memoirist, died earlier...

3. www.irishtimes.com › news › irelandThe final indignity of Frank McCourt’s ‘shiftless alcoholic ...

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   Malachy McCourt is introduced in the first page as “the shiftless, loquacious alcoholic father”. With the release of his file by the Military Service Pensions Archive, we now hear part of his...

4. www.legacy.com › news › celebrity-deathsMalachy McCourt obituary: Irish writer, actor, and talk show ...

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   Mar 12, 2024 · Though born in the United States, McCourt was raised in Limerick, Ireland, by his parents, Malachy and Angela – the titular Angela in “Angela’s Ashes,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir ...

5. thewildgeese.irish › profiles › blogs'Danny Boy' Explores an Enduring Irish Mystery - The Wild Geese

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   Jan 13, 2013 · It may be one of the most easily recognized and most beloved of Irish ballads, and yet, according to author Malachy McCourt, Danny Boy may not even be Irish. But where did it come from? Who wrote it, and for whom?

6. www.washingtonpost.com › obituaries › 2024/03/11Malachy McCourt, raconteur of the Irish experience in America ...

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   Mar 11, 2024 · Malachy McCourt, a New York raconteur who excelled at playing himself — an Irish bartender with a predilection for the drink — before writing a best-selling memoir that picked up his family’s...

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   Who was Malachy McCourt?

   • Frank would also become a late-blooming author, whose books included the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical work Angela’s Ashes. Malachy McCourt left school in Limerick when he was 13, two years after his heavy-drinking father deserted the family, leaving his mother, Angela, to raise the four of their surviving seven children.

   Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a comic spin

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   How old was Malachy McCourt when he reunited with New York?

   • He was 92. Malachy McCourt said in an interview with The New York Times last year that he had a heart condition, multiple kinds of cancer and muscular degeneration. In 1952, when he was 20, the Brooklyn-born McCourt reunited with New York.

   Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a comic spin

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   Is Malachy McCourt dead or still alive?

   • Died: March 11, 2024 (Who else died on March 11?) Details of death: Died in New York City after a long illness at the age of 92. We invite you to share condolences for Malachy McCourt in our Guest Book.

   Malachy McCourt obituary: Irish writer, actor, and talk show host dies

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   When did Malachy McCourt leave school?

   • Malachy McCourt left school in Limerick when he was 13, two years after his heavy-drinking father deserted the family, leaving his mother, Angela, to raise the four of their surviving seven children. The family, Malachy would write, was “not poor, but poverty-stricken.”

   Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a comic spin

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   Does Malachy McCourt perform in a couple of Blaguards?

   • Malachy McCourt appears in 'A Couple of Blaguards', which he wrote with his brother, Frank.

   Malachy McCourt, raconteur of the Irish experience in America, dies at

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   Was Malachy a poor family?

   • The family, Malachy would write, was “not poor, but poverty-stricken.” “Coming out of that life, the things that get you are the two evils of shame on one shoulder, the demon fear on the other,” he told The New York Times in 1998. “Shame says you came from nothing; you’re nobody; they’ll find you out for what you and your mother have done.

   Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a comic spin

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8. www.goodreads.com › book › showSinging My Him Song by Malachy McCourt | Goodreads

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   Oct 3, 2000 · 3.56. 1,447 ratings45 reviews. Malachy McCourt, bestselling author of A Monk Swimming, shares the extraordinary story of how he went from living the headlong and heedless life of a world-class drunk to becoming a sober, loving father and grandfather, still happily married after thirty-five years.