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When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived it all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.
. . . nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious alcoholic father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying schoolmasters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years.
Angela's Ashes
Opening passages of Frank McCourt's memoir.
Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’s love
Till she’s buried beneath the clay.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 1.
The master says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it's a glorious thing to die for Ireland and I wonder if there's anyone in the world who would like us to live. My brothers are dead and my sister is dead and I wonder if they died for Ireland or the Faith. Dad says they were too young to die for anything. Mam says it was disease and starvation and him never having a job. Dad says, Och, Angela, puts on his cap and goes for a long walk.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 4.
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 6.
I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed?
He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?
Angela's Ashes
Frank and friend Billy Campbell, as they watch the Protestants play croquet, Chaper 7.
I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 8.
It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 8.
You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.
Angela's Ashes
The headmaster Mr. O'Halloran, Chapter 8.
I know when Dad does the bad thing. I know when he drinks the dole money and Mam is desperate and has to beg . . . but I don't want to back away from him and run to Mam. How can I do that when I'm up with him early every morning with the whole world asleep?.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 8.
Mam turns toward the dead ashes in the fire and sucks at the last bit of goodness in the Woodbine butt caught between the brown thumb and the burnt middle finger. Michael . . . wants to know if we're having fish and chips tonight because he's hungry. Mam says, Next week, love, and he goes back out to play in the lane.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 9.
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.
Angela's Ashes
Chapter 12.
I'm on deck the dawn we sail into New York. I'm sure I'm in a film, that it will end and lights will come up in the Lyric Cinema. . . . Rich Americans in top hats white ties and tails must be going home to bed with the gorgeous women with white teeth. The rest are going to work in warm comfortable offices and no one has a care in the world.
Angela's Ashes
Frank's arrival in America at the conclusion of the memoir.
Angela’s Ashes is a memoir by Irish-American author Frank McCourt, and tells the story of his childhood in Brooklyn and Ireland. It was published in 1996 and won the Pulitzer Prize. McCourt was born in New York on August 19, 1930, and died on July 19, 2009.



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