‘Angela’s Ashes’ took the literary world by storm and now Frank McCourt’s masterpiece is coming to the stage as a musical. Esther McCarthy goes behind the scenes at rehearsals.

MAJOR damage has been caused during a burglary at the Frank McCourt Museum in Limerick.

A PLAN to scatter some of Frank McCourt’s ashes near the ruins of Carrigogunnell Castle outside Limerick yesterday had to be postponed as his widow, Ellen, had to return to New York to resume her treatment for breast cancer.

THE ashes of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Frank McCourt will be scattered today at a very special location in his adolescent life in the Limerick countryside.