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Angela's Ashes, the Glossary

Angela's Ashes: A Memoir is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt, with various anecdotes and stories of his childhood.^[1]

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Culture in Limerick (city)
Memoirs about alcoholism
Novels by Frank McCourt
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'Tis

Tis is a memoir written by Frank McCourt of his time learning how to live in New York City. Angela's Ashes and 'Tis are American memoirs and Novels by Frank McCourt.

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Alan Parker

Sir Alan William Parker (14 February 1944 – 31 July 2020) was an English film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Alphie McCourt

Alphonsus Joseph "Alphie" McCourt (29 July 1940 – 2 July 2016) was an Irish-American writer.

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Angela's Ashes (film)

Angela's Ashes is a 1999 drama film based on the memoir of the same name by Frank McCourt.

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Anglia (journal)

Anglia, subtitled Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, is a German quarterly academic journal on English linguistics, published by de Gruyter.

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Autobiography

An autobiography, sometimes informally called an autobio, is a self-written biography of one's own life.

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Billie Holiday

Billie Holiday (born Eleanora Fagan; April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959) was an American jazz and swing music singer.

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Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

The Bord Gáis Energy Theatre (originally the Grand Canal Theatre) is a performing arts venue, located in the Docklands of Dublin, Ireland.

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Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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County Antrim

County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic province of Ulster.

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Emily Watson

Emily Margaret Watson (born 14 January 1967) is a British actress.

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Euclid

Euclid (Εὐκλείδης; BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician.

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Exclusive Books Boeke Prize

The Exclusive Books Boeke Prize is a book prize which was awarded in South Africa from 1995 to 2012.

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Frank McCourt

Francis McCourt (August 19, 1930July 19, 2009) was an Irish-American teacher and writer.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal, October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his acerbic epigrammatic wit.

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Grand Opera House, Belfast

The Grand Opera House is a theatre in Belfast, Northern Ireland, designed by the most prolific theatre architect of the period, Frank Matcham.

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Great Depression

The Great Depression (19291939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world.

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John Williams

John Towner Williams (born February 8, 1932)Nylund, Rob (November 15, 2022).

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Limerick

Limerick (Luimneach) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.

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Los Angeles Times Book Prize

Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes.

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Malachy McCourt

Malachy Gerard McCourt (September 20, 1931 – March 11, 2024) was an American actor, writer and politician.

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Mary Immaculate College

Mary Immaculate College (Coláiste Mhuire gan Smál), also known as MIC and Mary I, is a College of Education and Liberal Arts.

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Michael Legge (actor)

Michael Legge (born 11 December 1978) is a retired Irish actor from Newry, Northern Ireland.

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Misery lit

Misery lit is a literary genre dwelling on trauma, mental and physical abuse, destitution, or other enervating trials suffered by the protagonists or, allegedly, the writer (in the case of memoirs).

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National Book Critics Circle

The National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) is an American nonprofit organization (501(c)(3)) with more than 700 members.

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Pulitzer Prize for Biography

The Pulitzer Prize for Biography is one of the seven American Pulitzer Prizes annually awarded for Letters, Drama, and Music. Angela's Ashes and Pulitzer Prize for Biography are Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning works.

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Richard Harris

Richard St John Francis Harris (1 October 1930 – 25 October 2002) was an Irish actor and singer.

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Robert Carlyle

Robert Carlyle (born 14 April 1961) is a Scottish actor.

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Scouting Ireland

Scouting Ireland (Gasóga na hÉireann) is one of the largest youth movements on the island of Ireland, a voluntary educational movement for young people with over 45,000 members, including over 11,000 adult volunteers.

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Sinéad O'Connor

Shuhada' Sadaqat (born Sinéad Marie Bernadette O'Connor; 8 December 1966 – 26 July 2023) was an Irish singer, songwriter, and activist.

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Society of Saint Vincent de Paul

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP or SVdP or SSVP) is an international voluntary organization in the Catholic Church, founded in 1833 for the sanctification of its members by personal service of the poor.

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Teacher Man

Teacher Man is a 2005 memoir written by Frank McCourt which describes and reflects on his development as a teacher in New York high schools and colleges. Angela's Ashes and teacher Man are Novels by Frank McCourt.

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The Highwayman (poem)

"The Highwayman" is a romantic ballad and narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes, first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine, based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

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The Late Late Show (Irish talk show)

The Late Late Show, with its title often shortened to The Late Late, is an Irish chat show.

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Welfare

Welfare, or commonly social welfare, is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela's_Ashes

Also known as Angela's Ashes The Musical, Angela's Ashes: A Memoir.

Angela's Ashes, the Glossary

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See also

Culture in Limerick (city)

Memoirs about alcoholism

Novels by Frank McCourt

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography-winning works

References