Angela's Ashes

The hopes of a mother. The dreams of a father. The fate of a child.

Plot Summary

An Irish Catholic family returns to 1930s Limerick after a child's death in America. The unemployed I.R.A. veteran father struggles with poverty, prejudice, and alcoholism as the family endures harsh slum conditions.

7.3 /10

1999

IEGB

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emigration

irish-american

hunger

socially deprived family

rain

famine

alcoholism

poverty

based on memoir or autobiography

ireland

brooklyn, new york city

alcoholic father

dead children

irish catholic

1930s

life in the slums

drunkard

children in need

limerick

rainy setting