I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

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).