Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland

Through Irish Eyes: A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland

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"Through Irish Eyes" is a visual tour through the Limerick, Ireland that Frank McCourt brought to life for over a half million readers in his best-selling Angela's Ashes. Since winning the Pulitzer Prize for literature last year, McCourt's powerful memoir has not only drawn readers but fervent attention to the entire Irish way of life, in particular, the churches, schools,...more
Hardcover, 64 pages
Published October 28th 1998 by Smithmark Publishers (first published January 1998)
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Patty Marvel
This is not a happy picture book. Malachy McCourt, brother of "Angela's Ashes" author Frank McCourt, writes in the foreword he initially didn't want to do so because he thought the book would "show an Ireland that exists only in the minds of the Shure Begorrah Brigades that pollute the papers and indeed all the media around the green ghetto days surrounding the feast of St. Patrick." But these are photos of a real and raw Ireland featuring children in filthy, threadbare clothes - not filthy and...more
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