CHANNELING MR. McCOURT TODAY !!

                           

"The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith, and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to die for Ireland, and I wonder if there’s anyone in the world who would like us to live.”    ― Frank McCourt

"When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”   ― Frank McCourt

“After a full belly all is poetry.”

― Frank McCourt

“Stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere with it.”
― Frank McCourt

“People everywhere brag and whimper about the woes of their early years, but nothing can compare with the Irish version: the poverty; the shiftless loquacious father; the pious defeated mother moaning by the fire; pompous priests; bullying school masters; the English and the terrible things they did to us for eight hundred long years ...  Above all, we were wet.”

― Frank McCourt

When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery... From his childhood.'

- Frank McCourt

Oh, the travails of being Irish !!!