Malachy McCourt

In describing his beloved land, the late Irish short story writer Sean O'Faolain wrote: "There is some alchemy of climate in Ireland that bedews the countryside with an unmistakable personality: it is in the softness of color, the mobility of the light, the gentleness with which sound caresses the ear." In this heartwarming photographic portrait, award-winning photographer Jill Freedman captu...

Book DescriptionThis marvelous anthology edited by New York Times bestselling author Malachy McCourt collects fiction, poetry, and essays by esteemed Irish writers over three centuries. From Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol and

An entertaining memoir of a rollicking life in New York of another Irish immigrant. The title is derived from the young Malachy?s mishearing of the line in ?amongst women? in Hail Mary. The Exuberance of the Irish lifestyle in New York is matched with the scenes of rollercoaster emotional life, and a fair amount of alcohol.

Malachy McCourt, actor, gadfly and raconteur follows up his international best seller A Monk Swimming with this, the second instalment of his hilarious memoirs.Malachy McCourt grew up in Limerick amid death, squalor, poverty and abuse. When he went to America as a young man, he took with him a gargantuan appetite for what life had to offer – and an equal drive to forget what it had delivered so fa...