McCourt museum opens its doors

“ASTOUNDING” — that was the verdict of Malachy McCourt as he walked back into his family’s impoverished childhood, as depicted in Angela’s Ashes.

That grim past can now be approached through the doors of the Frank McCourt Museum, officially opened in Limerick’s Harstonge Street yesterday by Malachy McCourt.

In the replicate bedroom of the McCourt’s tenement home in Roden Lane, Malachy, 79, questioned one small detail — peeling flaky wallpaper.