The reason that Frank was moved from New York to Ireland was his mother. In New York, Frank had lived with his father, Malachy McCourt, & mother, Angela Sheehan, both emigrants from Ireland who shortly after arriving in New York had met each other and married after the unplanned pregnancy with Frank. The three lived together for a year until Angela's second child was born and named Malachy, after the father. Two years later Angela gave birth to the twins, Oliver & Eugene and about two years after that, she had a little girl called Margaret. This little girl died when she was 7 weeks old and this made the mother, Angela, severely ill with depression. Angela's only relatives i

Frank had mixed feelings for his father, Malachy McCourt, he did love him but he also became very angry with him for being a shiftless, loquacious alcoholic who could not look after his family. There are times in the story where Frank shows his love for his father, like the time he was admitted to the Fever Hospital with typhoid fever and his father came to visit him - when his father was asked to leave he kissed Frank on the forehead for the first time in Frank's life and Frank says that this made him 'so happy I feel like floating out of bed'. Frank also refers to the mornings he would spend alone with his father before anyone else got up, eating breakfast and telling stories - he enjoyed these mornings so much because it gave him a chance to be alone with his father. On the other hand, Frank held a lot of resentment for his father because there were many times that Frank, his mother and brothers would be left hungry when Frank's father decided to drink his wages or dole money. Frank would then be sent out to look in the pubs for his father but never found him, his father only returned early in the morning when the money had been spent. So Frank was caught between the happy, peaceful mornings alone with his father that he so fondly remembered and the nights he would spend hungry, comforting his weeping mother by the fire whilst his father enjoyed himself out at the pubs. Eventually, when his father left them to go to work in England during the war and did not send them any money, Frank realised just how irresponsible his father really was and this gave him the incentive to save up enough money to mo

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