Angela's Ashes Part 1 - The Tour

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Part 1 follows the Angela's Ashes tour of the city. We took the tour with a group of Franks oldest friends, tour guide Mick O Donnell and Una Heaton, the owner of Leamy House, Frank's former school and now an Angela's Ashes museum. McCourt last visited Limerick in August 2008 to take part in the tour and on that occasion, the rain stayed at bay as the author walked the by-ways and lanes of his childhood around Barrack Hill.

Mick was nervous when Frank agreed to go on the tour, but he told us it didn't show on the day and that the tour brought back many memories for Frank. The lane along Barrack Hill has been widened, pushed back and is now complete with a row of modern, neat townhouses. "It looks like California," Frank had commented at the time.

The Angela's Ashes tour has now been running for over a decade - beginning two years after the memoir was published in 1996 and it is a tour that will continue to keep running, as the tour guide Mick O'Donnell tells us "the book will never die."

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  • It´s good to know I was not the only one obsessed with the book! I´m from Argentina and I just set my next goal in life, nothing will stop me from achieving it! Limerick, Ireland, I´ll be there one say!

    RIP, Mr. McCourt!

    " you might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a Palace"

  • rest in peace Mr. McCourt!

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  • Thank you for this(:

  • @GAYPRIDE1985 he's FABULOUSSSS!!!!

    Lol.

    but he is adorable. :3

  • WOW the host in the purple shirt is gay as hell!!! Hahahaha!!! But he is so cute with the spiked hair and his super gay mannerisms!

  • did aunt aggie and pa keating ever have any kiddies ??? i know she did not get pregnant before frank went to america but did she later have a child ??

  • Be sure to always let us have a look as you comment on the things that you are loking at!

  • Chamring story Angela's Ashes! I would so love to visit there one day.

  • I rememer yrs ago I watched this magnificent film. It touched my heart - not many films do. Ah what a story!

  • Thanx for this...my mother (a comtempory of Franks) was born and raised in the lanes, and also went to Leamys School. I spent many an afternoon as a child, listening to her many stories of life there....

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