Malachy McCourt, who fled a melancholic childhood in Ireland for America, where he applied his blarney and brogue to become something of a professional Irishman as a thespian, a barkeep and a best-selling memoirist, died on Monday in Manhattan.
His death, in a hospital, was confirmed by his wife, Diana McCourt.
In 1952, when he was 20, the Brooklyn-born Mr. McCourt reunited with New York.
Frank would also become a late-blooming author, whose books included the Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiographical work “Angela’s Ashes” (1996).
The family, Malachy would write, was “not poor, but poverty-stricken.”
Persons:
Malachy McCourt, Diana McCourt, McCourt, Frank McCourt, Frank, Malachy, Angela, ”
Organizations:
America
Locations:
Ireland, Manhattan, Brooklyn, New York, Limerick