Frank McCourt (1 Viewer)

[Wheels]

Is not very well apparently

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/16/frank-mccourt-gravely-ill_1_n_235659.html

 

[Wheels]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/20/frank-mccourt-died

 

[CinnamonBoy]

He gets his comeuppance here in fine style

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[Lili Marlene]

that's quite amazing, 'why are you so obsessed with me?'

 

[Mormon Nailer]

That Hannon is a cunt.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

That Hannon is a cunt.

McCourt was worse. My father's a Limerick man, and quite a mild-mannered one, and I particularly remember how riled up that fib-peddler McCourt made him.

 

[Carlow Punks!]

McCourt was worse. My father's a Limerick man, and quite a mild-mannered one, and I particularly remember how riled up that fib-peddler McCourt made him.

well, if he annoyed your Da, he must be a cunt.

 

[CinnamonBoy]

well, if he annoyed your Da, he must be a cunt.

Pretty much, yep.

Richard Harris too though, and plenty of other people.

Harris:

‘I knew Frank in his New York days and I found him to be probably the ugliest and the most bitter human being I have ever met in my entire life.

 

[7 - No tomorrow]

Didn't they have a book-burning in Limerick of McCourt's books?

You know, to show how civilised they were.

 

[Jill Hives]

Father, son and the holy toast. This makes me sad.

 

[Carlow Punks!]

That Gerry Hannon guy should stop going on about Frank McCourt, and start going about suing fellow Limerick man Jon Kenny, who obviously stole his image for several of his comic characters, especially the TV presenter from Father Ted Song for Europe episode.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I'd be wary of telling anyone with an alcoholic parent that in reality things were better for them than they are pretending.

It's possible that McCourt had a worse childhood than was normal in Limerick at the time, given that his father was an alcoholic, but honestly I don't think his experiences were that unusual.

I think the bitterness and begrudgery over the book comes from
A. people who think he disloyal to his mother to write about their experiences.
B. People who would rather not be reminded of how bad things were
C. Hysterical rosary clutching lunatics who's memories of that time involve Morris Monors and the Redemptorist's Novena and are scandalised by the idea that there was sex in Limerick.

 

[trev]

That Hannon is a cunt.

oh but how his radio programme entertained us for years.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

oh but how his radio programme entertained us for years.

It sounded like Joe Duffy being broadcast from a mental hospital.

 

[frona]

I'd be wary of telling anyone with an alcoholic parent that in reality things were better for them than they are pretending.

It's possible that McCourt had a worse childhood than was normal in Limerick at the time, given that his father was an alcoholic, but honestly I don't think his experiences were that unusual.

I think the bitterness and begrudgery over the book comes from
A. people who think he disloyal to his mother to write about their experiences.
B. People who would rather not be reminded of how bad things were
C. Hysterical rosary clutching lunatics who's memories of that time involve Morris Monors and the Redemptorist's Novena and are scandalised by the idea that there was sex in Limerick.

I don't know about that. I've heard people on about it and some of them fall into the "things weren't that bad" category, but lots of others say that things were exactly that bad but that he was economical with the truth in the specific events he said happened.

 

[Froog]

so limerick wasn't a shithole in the 30's?

 

[Scientician 0.8]

Rest In Peace.

 

[Mormon Nailer]

I don't know about that. I've heard people on about it and some of them fall into the "things weren't that bad" category, but lots of others say that things were exactly that bad but that he was economical with the truth in the specific events he said happened.

Everyone is going to have a different perspective on events witnessed, and any recollection of childhood events is going have a child's eye view of those events. It is a memoir after all and not a work of social history.

As a rule I'd say - no one really knows what goes on behind anyone else's front door, no matter how much they think they do.

 

[trev]

so limerick wasn't a shithole in the 30's?

dunno... wasnt there.

 

[trev]

It sounded like Joe Duffy being broadcast from a mental hospital.

we were out on the beer one night and we stood outside no.1 o connell grill looking up at the RLO studios across the road. one of the lads rang hannon and told him to look out the window and we'd wave at him.
his head popped up and we all went mental waving.

all this went out live on air.