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I left school at age 13. I was illiterate with no role models. The great psychobabble today is the dysfunctional family. Well, I've never met one that was functional. In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11 … It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave outrageously. Acting also allowed me not to be me. So I could indulge every fantasy in this paradise of America.


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They say what I did was ego-driven and name-dropping …Damn right it is. Who am I going to write about? People I didn't meet?

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He's an amazing man … When he was 12, one of our schoolmasters said: "My boy, you are a literary genius. My strong suggestion is to go to America. They will appreciate you there." Over the years I've read what he's written that never got published, and I always said it still holds. He is a literary genius. Also the most nonjudgmental decent guy. He forgives.

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Cute in Ireland meant cunning and devious … And I'm not sure that I'm not.

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Malachy McCourt

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Born: September 20, 1931
Died: March 11, 2024 (aged 92)
Bio: Malachy Gerard McCourt was an Irish-American actor, writer, and politician. He was the 2006 Green Party candidate for governor in New York State, losing to the Democratic candidate Eliot Spitzer. He was the younger brother of author Frank McCourt.
Known for:
  1. A Monk Swimming (1998)
  2. Singing my him song (1991)
  3. The Claddagh Ring (2003)
  4. Through Irish Eyes (1998)
  5. Danny boy (2000)

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