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Angela's Ashes Part 1 - The Tour

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Uploaded on Dec 5, 2010

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."

For Richard Lynch: https://www.facebook.com/Richanthon.

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  • coquiquiando

    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"

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  • JrockLoverYuu

    rest in peace Mr. McCourt!

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  • dishonorme

    best book ever.....thank you!

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  • Danny Stewart

    Great video tribute to a great book. My great-grandad was from Limerick, I hope to head there next year if I can find where they lived. You have to love Ireland - even in misery we find things to celebrate and remember with a rare sense of poetry no matter how bad things are.

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  • SeraphineManson

    I love Frank McCourt, one of my favorite writers by far.

    I can totally relate to the miserable childhood.

    He really inspires me. Love ya Frank. R.I.P

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  • SoulofT

    Thank you for this(:

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  • EmilieAutumnXO

    he's FABULOUSSSS!!!!

    Lol.

    but he is adorable. :3

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  • GAYPRIDE1985

    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!

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  • savantkid1

    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 ??

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  • happyquails

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

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