Goanet author with an unclear name, will not speculate over pedigree, hope gainfully employed. McCourt was born in Brooklyn in 1930, the family returned to Ulster, then Limerick, in 1935, where they sank into even greater poverty. His two younger brothers were born there. Frank returned to NY as a young man, tended bars and attended college at the same time before before enlisting as a teacher with the NY City school system - where a certain Anita Pinto now collects a paycheck at a school in a section once called the 'Irish Hell's Kitchen.' Angela's Ashes makes for sad reading: will treat you to excerpts when a certain Errol Pinto returns my copy, bought it at a church fair where dinners are still a dollar. eric.
________________________________ From: lyrawmn <lyra...@yahoo.com> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <goanet@lists.goanet.org> Sent: Monday, October 3, 2011 1:43 AM Subject: Re: [Goanet] "PIGS" Food Facts. The Goanet author erred. Frank McCourt, American, was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Biography or Autobiography in 1997 for Angela's Ashes. No Noble whatever. No Nobel. Unclear if "curry diners" were ever standard fare in Depression-era Ireland. I. Nunes *** eric pinto ericpin...@yahoo.com wrote: <<Frederic: Chilly Cuisine - Frank McCourt, the Irish literature Noble winner and irrepressible humourist liked to talk about the not so felicitous aftermath of church fair curry dinners around his Dublin slum in the 30's. Those were pre-flush toilet days and removal involved dumping the contents of pots from upper floors directly into a horse drawn town cistern cart. Not funny, certainly not for the carter. Hungry kids: none around Dabolim, strays get the food I swipe off the galley buffet on long haul flights. eric. >>
