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 simply ‘a nice guy’
Malachy McCourt
Malachy McCourt obituary: Larger-than-life author who put a comic spin on his Limerick childhood
‘In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn’t,’ the actor and New York publican once said
Malachy McCourt, Irish-American actor, writer and biographer, dies at 92
McCourt, brother of Angela’s Ashes writer Frank, spent childhood in Limerick before acting and bartending in 1960s and 1970s New York
Irish actors and writers sign petition against sale of historic Fifth Avenue building
American Irish Historical Society represents ‘struggles and success of Irish ancestors’
Malachy McCourt: ‘Frank wouldn’t be happy unless he was miserable’
Angela’s Ashes returns to Dublin in September. What’s it like to see your family’s story of growing up in poverty as a musical?
The final indignity of Frank McCourt’s ‘shiftless alcoholic father’
Military pension file for Malachy McCourt, bad dad of Angela’s Ashes, comes to light
‘The Quiet Man’: embassy in US feared a false view of Ireland
‘We may have protests’, said Washington counsellor when film premiered in 1952
The sobriety diaries
She’s a believer in alcohol, a fan of pubs, a ‘normal Irish person’. Today, Ann Marie Hourihane begins a social experiment: quitting alcohol for one month. How will she handle it?
St Pat’s For All parade in New York ‘restoring the Irish welcome’
Parade in Queens, now in 15th year, founded in response to ban on gay people marching under banner at Manhattan parade
John Patrick Shanley: ‘I’ve avoided writing as an Irish man most of my life’
The playwright recently won the Eugene O’Neill award amid high jinks at an Irish American gathering
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