Angela's Ashes Part 1 - The Tour
Part 1 follows the Angela's Ashes tour of the city. We took the tour with a group of Franks oldest friends, tour guide Mick O Donnell and Una Heaton, the owner of Leamy House, Frank's former school and now an Angela's Ashes museum. McCourt last visited Limerick in August 2008 to take part in the tour and on that occasion, the rain stayed at bay as the author walked the by-ways and lanes of his childhood around Barrack Hill.
Mick was nervous when Frank agreed to go on the tour, but he told us it didn't show on the day and that the tour brought back many memories for Frank. The lane along Barrack Hill has been widened, pushed back and is now complete with a row of modern, neat townhouses. It looks like California, Frank had commented at the time.
The Angela's Ashes tour has now been running for over a decade - beginning two years after the memoir was published in 1996 and it is a tour that will continue to keep running, as the tour guide Mick O'Donnell tells us the book will never die.
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Limerick Ireland According to Angela's Ashes 1
Cultural Experiences in Angela's Ashes:
Angela's Ashes trailer, the iconic Limerick Movie
Medieval Limerick Walking Tour
Explore Medieval Limerick with this 3km walking trail taking you to many significant locations including St. Mary's Cathedral, Bishop's Palace, King John's Castle.
Video: Patrick Howard. Music: Jason Shaw. Photo: Limerick Tourist Office.
Frank McCourt Museum - Limerick, Ireland
Frank McCourt was a Pulizer Prize winning author who grew up in extreme proverty in Limerick, Ireland in the 1930's and 40's. Born in America, he returned to the United States when he was 17 years old. After earning a college degree from New York University he taught in the New York Public School System until he retired. After retirement he wrote about this early life in a book he titled, Angela's Ashes. It won the Pulitizer Price in 1997. In 2012, a museum honoring McCourt was opened in Limerick in the school he attended until he was 13 years old.
'Frank's Ashes' The Legacy Of Frank McCourt Documentary
‘Frank Ashes’ The Legacy of Frank McCourt Documentary tells us the story about the life of Frank McCourt from his childhood to his death.
With the help of workers from The Frank McCourt Museum in Limerick, Noel Curtin from 'Angela's Ashes Walking Tour'and some Limerick writers as Dominic Taylor from ‘Limerick Writers Center’ and Helena Close help us to relive that cold and humid time with which Frank McCourt described his childhood in his book.
This is a college project I wanted to make about Frank McCourt for the 10th anniversary of his passing and I just would love to share the story with other all over the world.
The documentary was chosen by the Limerick Post to win the award for Best Documentary Film at the LSAD Film & Media Showcase 19 in the Millenium Theatre, LIT, Limerick, Ireland.
Music used:
BURNING EMBERS
- Angela's Ashes
- The Shame
- Songs From The Ashes/Tribute
- Malachy Song
- Angel On The 7th Step
- Song's From The Ashes
THE GLOAMING
- Slán le Máighe
- Mrs Dwyer
MEDIA
Three Documentary Films By Conor McCourt
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St. Mary's Church Limerick city
St. Mary's Church Limerick city the island field
Grandmother visit limerick castle
Grandmother in limerick
Welcome 2015 from Limerick Walking Tours
Spectacular firework display over Copacabana Beach, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
American dream limerick
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Rediscovering Limerick #4 Cleeve's Condensed Milk Factory
A six part series Rediscovering Limerick's history, brought to you by LimericksLife.com and I Love Limerick
Researched, Written and Presented by Sharon Slater
Directed, Filmed and Edited by Sean Wrenn
Produced by I Love Limerick
Tour of Canal bank Limerick city
a walking tour of limerick city
Angela's Ashes (1/8) Movie CLIP - Hanging on the Cross Sporting Shoes (1999) HD
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The school boys tease Frank's (Joe Breen) poor, home-repaired shoes so Frank shows up to class barefoot.
FILM DESCRIPTION:
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir by Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes is an alternately funny and heartbreaking look at growing up in Ireland. Born in Brooklyn, NY, young Frank (Joe Breen) moves at an early age to Limerick, Ireland, with his parents Angela (Emily Watson) and Malachy (Robert Carlyle), who have been unable to support their family in America and are hoping for better prospects in their home country. But things hardly improve once they settle in Limerick; as McCourt puts it, Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood. Worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood. Illness and death are commonplace in Limerick, and Malachy's drinking and inability to hold a job make matters worse. Angela's Ashes was directed by Alan Parker, who previously looked at Irish life in The Commitments (1991); Laura Jones wrote the screenplay.
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Cast: Des McAleer, Joe Breen, Shane Murray-Corcoran
Director: Alan Parker
Producers: David Brown, James Flynn, Kit Golden, Doochy Moult, Morgan O'Sullivan, Alan Parker, Scott Rudin, Adam Schroeder, Eric Steel, David Wimbury
Screenwriters: Frank McCourt, Laura Jones, Alan Parker
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Celia Holman Lee Exhibition Hunt Museum
The exhibition Celia Holman-Lee: Limerick’s Style Icon runs until May 3 at the Hunt Museum, Limerick. - See more at:
Presenter/Producer: Richard Lynch. Camera: Aisling O Connor. Editor: Richard Lynch. Music: Richard Lynch & Brian McKenna. Graphics: Aladdin Kishk.
That's Limerick
A great insight into what Limerick has to offer. The George Boutique Hotel is located at the very heart of the Riverside City on O'Connell Street, Limerick's main thoroughfare and commercial hub, with entrance and parking around the corner on Shannon Street.
Distance from Shannon Airport to Limerick: 15 Minutes
Distance from Faranfore (Kerry Airport) to Limerick: 80 Minutes
Distance from Galway City to Limerick: 55 Minutes
Distance from Dublin to Limerick: 90 Minutes
Distance from Cork to Limerick: 70 Minutes
The Shannon Region boasts an enviable array of historic attractions from pre-historic recreations such as Craggaunowen Park which recreates pre-historic and early Christian living conditions, to modern historic attractions such as the Foynes Flying Boat Museum which tells the story of Pan Am's transatlantic flying boat that visited the area in the 1940's with VIP's such as JFK and Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt on board!
No trip to Ireland would be complete without a visit to one of our medieval castles; within an easy driving distance from The George Boutique Hotel is Bunratty Castle, one of Ireland premier castle attractions. Nightly at Bunratty you can enjoy a traditional medieval banquet in the great halls of the 15th century castle.
Within a short walk from the hotel there are also several notable historic visitor attractions, St. Johns Castle is located on an island in the river Shannon overlooking the city and gives visitors a treasured glimpse of life in medieval times.
If you are a member of Ireland's Diaspora and are returning to visit your roots as President Obama did in 2011, then Limerick is the perfect place to start your trip. Enjoy a visit to The Frank McCourt Museum, a museum dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Angela's Ashes, which recreates the life many citizens endured prior to taking the lonely trip across the Atlantic Ocean to begin a new life in the USA in the 1930's.
Limerick and Clare have so much to offer a visitor and listed below are some of the visitor attractions and activities you can enjoy and the George Boutique Hotel is the perfect choice if you are looking for Hotels in Limerick.
ULTIMATE IRELAND: Bunratty Castle, a fairy village and hanging out in Limerick!
We stopped to visit the Bunratty Folk Park, which comprises a collection of farmhouses from different regions of Ireland.
We then headed east into Limerick for a panoramic tour of the city, which features the sights made famous in Frank McCourt’s biography, “Angela’s Ashes.” Pass the 13th century King John's Castle in the center of the town.
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Dreams of home
Parcel Of Rogues at the Cauldron Bar Limerick singing Dreams of home
Angela's Ashes Oliver's Death
School project
Guide Limerick; King John's Castle; Swords, Battles and Feisty Women
Take our walking guide to King Johns Castle Limerick and meet the merry blacksmith, strong knight, rebel woman, rebel soldier and more..
Transcription:
So behind me is King John's castle and it's a major asset to Limerick city because it has 800 years of history in these walls.
It marks the site where the Vikings first came. And they used this area to pillage the whole countryside. They went to all the religious settlements and they wreaked havoc in this area. And then they were overtaken by the other Vikings, the Dublin Vikings. And then eventually the Normans came along around the 12th century. And in 1200 the Lord of Limerick, his name was John, he decided to build this castle and that's where it got its name
We're going to be exploring what happened then and after that when we go inside this beautiful piece of history.
So, what's your name? Igor Sparks is my name. I'm the village blacksmith here. In King John's Castle. Here we are. And so blacksmithing would have been important back then ....Well t'was very important if you wanted to go into battle and have a good old sword like. Because if you went in with a very bad sword, your sword could crack. You could be stabbed to death. Okay. So it was my job to make sure they got a good quality sword.
So this would have been a typical helmet. It's Viking times. Viking Times. Right. Like that idea about the horns coming out of it, that's only Hollywood.
I thought you said normal, Normans. I'm not good at the names either. That's if you're on horseback. It's not easy to see there. No its not. So they have a little padding in it. Can you see? Your hair is in the way.
My hair is in the way. You're not allowed have long hair in the Norman days.
No, t'would be all tied back.
So you'd have your sword. And you'd be fighting away. And you'd be stabbing. Like they used to stop. You couldn't really chop his head off with this. You'd do stabbing with it, like. Stabbing in the arms. Till the blood came out.
I don't think I'd be able to stab anyone with this on my head.
No, you wouldn't. You'd need the Viking one probably.
Yeah. I think I prefer the Viking style. Yes. Feels pretty safe though
Yes, it is.
Not easy to walk around if you're scared, you know.
Still, if I was going to the shop now late at night and I was wearing one of these, they'd be afraid to come after me.
True.
Or one of these as well. Now if you were caught. Do you see that big round building over there. Don't know if I can point it to you. That was the mint. That's where they made their money years ago. They were so poor that time they used to shave little bits of the coins to make their own money and they'd bring it to the forge here and I'd melt it down. Do you know? Well what would happen is, if you were caught doing that, right, your arm was cut off if you were a man.
Wow.
And your arm was cut off if you were a woman. But if you were a man, you were brought up here as well and they'd heat up these hot tongs here. And the family jewels of a man would be removed with these. They'd be snipped off.
God.
Yeah. I hate telling that story but I have to tell the truth as well like. There's no point in painting it as a romantic age. Not to get caught. I wonder would it work today?
Hi Simon, could you tell us your role here? I'm portraying a Norman Knight and I talk and interact with the visitors. Behind me is my campaign tent which is typical of where a Norman soldier of high rank and status would have pitched tent, maybe drawn maps, planned battle, planned strategies for the day.
So my name is Conor and a 1642 Siege soldier. I'm here defending the castle walls during the sieges of Limerick in the 1640s. I'm Ailish and I'm a siege woman during the 1642 siege. And during the siege the women were remembered for fighting alongside the men but not in the conventional way. We would have gotten big stones or rocks and boiling water and boiling oil and we would have made our way up to the castle walls and thrown it down at people. We were pretty feisty.
The English won in the end. Cromwell and his armies eventually conquered Ireland and the English authority and the crown was fully restored to a certain extent.
So, with a thousand years of history behind us, its good bye from King John's Castle.