Angelas Ashes summary

Malachy McCourt was born and grew up on a farm in Toome in Northern Ireland. Angela Sheehan was born in Limerick in Western Ireland. She grew up in Limerick with her mother, her two brothers Thomas and Patrick, and her sister Agnes – or Aggie as she is commonly called. Angela never saw her father, who had run off to Australia weeks before her birth.

When Angela grows up, she goes to the USA. There she meets Malachy McCourt at a party given by Dan MacAdorey and his wife, Minnie, on Classon Avenue in Brooklyn. Malachy likes Angela and she likes him. Malachy is in Brooklyn because he had been in jail for hijacking a truck. A day in March, Malachy marries Angela. Six moths later a boy is born and they name him Francis. He is to become the main character in the book under the name Frankie. Malachy has a growing drink problem and is out of work.

A year later another child is born. Angela names him Malachy after his father. The years go by, and Angela has two new babies. Malachy gets a job, but he loses the job after only three weeks. The wages he gets he drinks up. He comes home drunk and sings Irish songs late at night. He tells Frankie stories about the legendary Irish hero Cuchulain. Frankie loves these storie

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Mrs O’Connell yells at him calling him a bad boy, and he gets fired right away. They have to manage on the dolemoney, but Frankie’s father spends most of it on drink, and his mother Angela has to go begging at the St. Malachy joines the Army School of Music and plays the trumpet as a soldier in Dublin. If Malachy (the father) stay in the pubs until closing time, there is nothing left of his wages. He goes to the stairs and looks down to see if the Angel is on the seventh step. But during the breakfast at his grandmother’s house he gets sick and throws up in her bacak garden – the breakfast as well as the body and blood of Christ.

The family lacks money all the time. They deliver telegrams so that people can get their money orders. At Easons Ltd, Mr McCaffrey drives the van and Frankie and Willie are delivering the magazines to the shops. Francis about his brothers and sister who are dead, his father, Theresa, why they couldn’t hang Goering, the Christian brothers who closed the door in his face, his bad eyes and the fact that he hit his mother.

On Saturdays, people are shouting to their children what they have for dinner, so that almost all the people in Limerick can hear them. Frida takes Frankie’s hand and leads him into a bedroom.

Angela goes down to the school and she talks to mr O'Halloran in the hallway. He used to dance with her when they both were younger and before Angela went America.

Approximate Word count = 9333
Approximate Pages = 37 (250 words per page double spaced)

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