I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

The Frank McCourt School is one of four small schools designated to fill the campus of the former Louis D. In 1951 McCourt was drafted during the Korean War and was sent to Bavaria for two years initially training dogs then as a clerk. Life and work


Early years
Frank McCourt was born in Brooklyn New York on 19 August 1930 to father Malachy McCourt an ex-IRA man from Ballymoney Antrim (1901–1985) and Irish Catholic mother Angela Sheehan from Limerick (1908–1981).