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Frank McCourt was born in 1931 in Brooklyn, New York, the first of seven children born to Irish immigrant parents, Angela and Malachy McCourt. When the author was four years old, the lack of work in Depression era New York, and the death of McCourt's baby sister Margaret, forced the family to return to live in Limerick, Angela McCourt's home town.

Limerick stands in the west of Ireland at the mouth of the Shannon River.

Things were even worse in Limerick, where the family suffered extreme poverty throughout the 1930s.

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Machalay McCourt was an alcoholic who was unemployed most of the time; when he did work, he drank what little he earned in the pubs of Limerick. Shortly after their return to Ireland, McCourt's twin brothers, Oliver and Eugene, died about six months apart of pneumonia brought about by poor nutrition and damp living conditions.

As a youth of ten, McCourt himself almost died of typhoid f