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Interesting first part of the video, it's about the true history of Ireland, women always influenced that country , for more than a thousand years from now, the proof exists. The Irish are aware of the Catholic faith for the same time. In the last 40 years, women's leadership has dropped,

Ireland was never completely under British rule, the leaders of the 1900,s battles are not named in this video, keep going with your research, the truth exists.

Never heard of Angela's ashes but I have watched Waking Ned Devine. And no one would have discarded valuable manure, used to fertilize fields.

Nicknames were very big in America, everywhere. In the West and in New York City and Chicago. Oh, also Las Vegas.

His mum often said the book was a pack of lies. Local writer compiled a list of 204 inaccuracies in Angela's Ashes; and confronted McCourt on The Late Late Show in 1999.[14][15] McCourt was a member of the Boy Scouts, a middle-class pursuit the poor could not afford, and family photographs show the children and Angela as well-fed.

I’m sure McCourt embellished a few details of his life to make it bleaker than it was - her had a book to sell. I’ve never read it nor seen the film, as my upbringing had many similarities although we were poor, mum did great and we were never hungry. Just didn’t have what others had.

nice

Not funny! really infantile and not funny! and racist!

Richard Harris's life in Limerick was at one end of the spectrum and that of Frank Mc Court at the other end, although they grew up in physically adjacent neighborhoods. Harris sounds jealous of McCourt's success whereas he could have easily lauded his talent. Angela's Ashes brilliant portrayal of the culture of poverty in Limerick of that time was relevant in the 70s when I worked there. Harris is arrogant in his ignorance in this interview.

What a gobshite. We don't tell yarns or stories with so much vulgarity. What rubbish 🙄

Its a cynical celebration of misery for personal gain .. Harris’s analysis rings true

Was Angela catholic and her husband protestant?

frank father was a catholic who was in the ira

The Irish in general have a natural talent for banter and wit and it has served us well because it was a necessary survival tool over the centuries. We practice the use of banter and wit with eachother in an extreamely competitive way mostly but not always for fun. The trick is using a combination of words in a picticular way that can be funny or even better knock a person in a group of people slightly out of his comfort zone within the group. The game is that person then has to offer a better witticism in return as quickly as possible in order to reestablish or improve his hierarchy within the group. But that's for fun but we also use it in business. When Ireland joined the EEC/EU in 1973 we had to do trade deals with those members and English was the common language. Our Continental brothers didn't stand a chance. While we got no free lunches in general we got the better of the deal using banter and wit to expose the hand of our EEC/EU competitors for years. Keeping your wits about you has a compleatly different meaning doing trade deals. The Germans and other Countries used to complain that after hours of talk with the Irish and thinking they were nearing the end of the trade deal were dismayed to find that for the Irish the trade deal was just beguining. Eventually they had to actually train people on how to deal with the complex and disarming world of Irish wit and wordplay. . . . . . . (Disclaimer: The above comment may or may not be true.)

My father told me that his father told him remember son that all Irish are wits and you''r half Irish. I have thought it over a bit.

You were censored once before Gerry, make sure they don't do it again...

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Frank McCourt states his father was a drunk because he couldn't get work because he was a Proddo. But that is not true. The Protestants ran most of the industry in those days & he would have been first in line for any job he applied for. The reality was he was an alco who pissed off on his family leaving them in poverty. McCourt also states that the family got no help from their neighbours. That would have been highly unusual. Limerick is only a small place and the evidence from studies is that people in the poorer districts took care of their neighbours. What made the McCourts so hated that people would not help them? McCourts had lived in America & were taken to Eire at the instigation of their mother. There is very strong evidence that McCourt & his brother mistreated their mother because they blamed her for taking them to Eire, a place they never wanted to go. They would have preferred to stay in the USA. They were Americans, not Irish. The truth is never easy & the truth of the McCourt's hatred of Eire & of their mother for taking them there may stem from simply not wishing to be there & not fitting in because they didn't want to. Family would have helped them. Neighbours would have helped them. They would have had the help of the charities. They also would have had help form the Poor foundation set up by my own relations in Eire. So, he just lied& lied & lied because it was a better story than reality.

I am a proud former student of the Institute fahy in Moreno Buenos Aires.

It seems there was bad blood between Harris and the McCourts. Be sure and listen to the video on here entitled: Richard Harris Exposes the Truth about Frank McCourt and Angela's Ashes. He doesn't have a kind word for these men. I feel like he had an axe to grind and wanted to sully the McCourt name. I understand having pride in your hometown. However, one's remembrances can differ greatly from another's, especially is they grew up in different economic situations. Harris also criticizes the McCourt men in their handling of their mother when she was alive and her ashes after she passed. Until he suffers at her hands as these men did, he doesn't have a say in the discussion.

My sister, brother and I were raised in the same house but if we each wrote a book no one would believe we were related. Our experiences were vastly different. I was the oldest and treated very badly. My sister was my dad's favorite and escaped our mother's wrath for it. Our brother was mom's golden child. I had no one, and it showed with severe abuse and neglect, but 60 years ago no one cared if you were dressed in rags and weak from food deprivation, even though you lived in an upper class neighborhood. You just didn't exist. So, yes, I believed McCourt.

"A prophet is not without honor except in his own country" Jesus Christ said that. So I think Frank is in pretty good country. Let the poor man rest. And 40 years old? No this story is timeless

i doubt if its true

I love this interview. I never liked Angela's ashes. I didnt know Limerick, but my mother grew up in Dublin in similar time and situation. The people were loyal to each other, and always helped each other no matter how poor they were. I hated this film its was dreadful and the McCourts came across unloving, disloyal.

Macourt is about 40 years older

Let's not forget that Frank & Malachi started out in America. Maybe that's why they're not loyal to Limerick. In America, the sky's the limit! I can't and won't try to understand why they treated mom so horribly! But when I read the book, I was disgusted that he worked so hard to get back to America and couldn't spare a few coins to help out his mother or even have a plan to get them all to a better life. Richard's account doesn't surprise me the more he speaks.😢

Frank McCourt is just a liar. The fact of the matter is that potatoes, not bread, were the staple diet during the 1930s and 1940s. The country was awash with potatoes/vegetables and were dirt cheap. It was well-known and documented that the Irish poor were in better health than their English counterparts in the cities whose staple diet was bread which was by far less nutritious and more expensive. Even before the "famine" in the 19th century in English medical journals, documented on how healthy young children in Irelan were. Plenty of things killed the poor but it wasn't a lack of food. Again McCourt is playing to everyone but the Irish people. Just bread and tea my arse.

I saw the movie and there was a huge jump in the movie from his childhood to young Frank mccourt and i was bored with the movie from then on. The rest of his memoirs did not sell at all. The Irish times tore apart tis. Teacher man was torn apart by people who were taught by him or worked with him in community in new york. By the time those two other books came out he had long since ceased to live limerick

If Mr. McCourt's recount of his childhood is accurate, I can certainly see why he'd be a cold, unhappy man. You carry those scars with you into adulthood. In this interview Mr. Harris certainly sounds like he has an axe to grind. He's very bitter towards the McCourts. I would love to know the real reason for his hatred besides how they treated their mother. Just because one is a mother it doesn't mean she has earned the love and respect of her children.

Will you stop beating this drum Gerry Hannan, the book is almost 40 years old no one cares

I and my mom loved the book. I even read McCourt's follow up book. My mom loved it bc she identified with the story, being raised in the backwoods of W.Va in a poor and abusive large family. I thought this video would be as interesting as the Richard Harris interview but instead, it's more like a boring literary class lecture. True or embellishments, it's still a good book.

Another thing I don’t think you mentioned but back when Stoker was young he would have over heard or heard of the stories of the starving Irish drink blood from livestock in order to get some nourishment.

I read this at the time of it's publication, and remember enjoying reading it. I believe I also bought and read his second one. It is a vivid memoir, but no-one ever called it a serious historical record. His contemporaries remember their lives differently: they are their memories and not his. He is recalling his childhood, as he experienced it as a child, not an historical document. I never read it as such. Seriously, is there to be a series about Dave Allen's jokes? I will go back and read it again, but I won't be bothering with the "Emerald Chronicle" .

Hhmmm...reading the comments gives good perspective but I couldn't get past chapter 3 or 4.

Did Angela have four fingers or six? Stupid ,awful AI generated pics. Good interview though. I miss Harris.

I’ve never understood the anger people feel towards this book.

Richard Harris grew up wealthy. He was also a handsome star athelete. Frank Mccourt grew up in abject poverty. Just saying. I don't think they had the same experience.

In the book McCourt states that his father was an alcoholic. Having read it, and its sequel, I'd postulate he was, too. Having grown up with alcoholic siblings much older then myself, I learned that if they tell you what time it is, you check your watch. If they say it's raining, look out the window and check.

The speaker omits that Frank McCourt's father was an alcoholic. That is NOT fabricated. His childhood was impoverished because his father was a drunkard, but the speaker ignores that. Men, so often, cover-up for other men's vices.

The O'Malleys fought with the English at Kinsale

Dublin had the worst tenements in Europe according to many historians so it’s a how you see things as a individual I suppose doubtless there is a few maybe a good few enhancements

We all see life differently am one of 8 siblings we all have our own look on our life according to age

I didn’t like the movie

The book was different to the film I didn’t really feel this was a slant against limerick I thought it was a sad tale about bringing up children in poverty . The poverty was essentially caused by the dad putting himself before the children . You could have placed them anywhere to be honest it wasn’t unique to limerick .

Yeah, Limerick was a Garden of Eden in McCourt's youth - stratospheric infant mortality, likewise life expectancy, infectious diseases, insane asylums, animal incineration fumes....Too bad there's not an afterlife so McCourt could be returned to suffer an auto-da-fé!

Trump is of German and Scottish stock, not Irish

I always find it comical to hear a rich man speak with such authority about a poor man's life's experience. I loved Richard Harris as an actor, but this interview made me sick. He speaks of McCourt as a man full of hate, yet Harris speaks with nothing but hatred about the McCourts. Ironic isn't it.

An Irish friend lent me the book when it came out, she said a lot of old people in Ireland were embarrassed by it and tried to claim it wasn’t that bad

What flew up RH's arse?

EAST SIDE-WEST SIDE. Harris was wealthy and oblivious, McCourt was poor-there is the difference. Harris comes off as jealous and petty.