The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.

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• Frank McCourt:

  Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the

• Frank McCourt:

  There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with mos

• Frank McCourt:

  Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.

• Frank McCourt:

  Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked

• Frank McCourt:

  I didn't know you could write about yourself. Nobody ever told me about this.

• Frank McCourt:

  O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So tha

• Frank McCourt:

  You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty

• Frank McCourt:

  I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say

• Frank McCourt:

  If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd Stree

• Frank McCourt:

  I was a houseman, the lowest. I was just above - in the hierarchy of jobs, I was just above the Pue