Born in Brooklyn in 1931, the second son of Irish immigrants, Malachy McCourt is one of the most famous Irish Americans alive today. After his baby sister’s crib death, the grieving family returned to Ireland on a steamboat. Just 3 years old, Malachy roamed the decks, singing the song “Paddy Reilly” for bread and jam. The next few years in Limerick were spent in dire poverty, and made famous by his brother Frank, in his Pulitzer-prize winning memoir, Angela's Ashes.
McCourt has spent years acting, writing, campaigning, running political campaigns, broadcasting and he even owned a popular New York City pub at one point. Join us for a candid conversation with the author, who is currently battling Inclusion Body Myositis and cancer, but who has outlived his own hospice care. He is his usual good-humored and sanguine self and his perspective on his life in his 91st year is as refreshingly honest as always.