Malachy McCourt, raconteur of the Irish experience in America and brother of Angela's Ashes author, dies aged 92
His son confirmed the death and said his father was listening to ‘Will Ye Go Lassie Go’ by the Chieftains when he died
Malachy McCourt has died aged 92
Malachy McCourt, a New York raconteur who excelled at playing himself - an Irish bartender with a predilection for the drink - before writing a best-selling memoir that picked up his family’s immigrant story where his brother’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book Angela’s Ashes left off, died March 11 at a hospital in Manhattan. He was 92.
His son Conor confirmed the death but did not provide a specific cause. He added that his father was listening to a recording of Will Ye Go Lassie Go by the Chieftains when he died.
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