Through Irish Eyes
A Visual Companion to Angela McCourt's Ireland
Foreword by Malachy McCourt
New York 1998
Stron 64, DUŻY format: 27x29 cm
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Through Irish Eyes adds a visual dimension to the Ireland that so many readers of Angela's Ashes—Frank McCourt's luminous account of his Limerick childhood—have longed to know better. Stirring photography of Limerick in the 1930s and 1940s offers witness to the Irish way of life—its landscape, its singular ways, its people and customs, its struggles, and its small and hard-wrought joys. Compelling images are coupled here with firsthand accounts of daily life in Limerick and the gorgeous words of such important writers as Yeats, Morton, and Thackeray.
Malachy McCourt, the author of the acclaimed memoir A Monk Swimming and a brother of Frank McCourt, provides a singular yet characteristically McCourt foreword, confirming that the pictures here show Irish life as it really was for millions of Irish people.
For those who stayed, those who left, and those, like the McCourts, who left and returned, along with their descendants, this stunning visual record will stir the emotions while enlightening the intellect. In the faces of the children playing in the streets, the women laboring at factory work, and the men searching desperately for employment, here are the lineaments of humanity—as so beautifully and emotionally first introduced to scores of readers through the best-selling Angela's Ashes.
