Frank McCourt's legacy is secure
FRANK McCourt was a remarkable Limerickman whose books touched millions of people around the world and there was great sadness here this week as news of his death emerged.
McCourt's relationship with Limerick was complex and late in his life he spoke of "unfinished business" with his native city.
Perhaps, though, he overstated this point, for there was persuasive evidence in recent years that he was comfortable and happy here, whenever he came back. Indeed, looking around the transformed city in wonderment, he told our reporter Anne Sheridan that he would have loved to have grown up in such a dynamic place. There were those who resented his most famous book, Angela's Ashes, for allegedly depicting Limerick in a poor light and for certain inaccuracies.
But the poverty McCourt wrote about was certainly not unique to Limerick in the Ireland of the Thirties and Forties and no less a judge than the late Jim Kemmy, perhaps uniquely qualified to offer a perspective on the quality and veracity of the book, was one of the author's biggest champions.
In telling his own story, in his own unique way, Frank McCourt made a considerable contribution to Limerick's literary and cultural life. His legacy is secure, both here and around the world.
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