Malachy McCourt for Kansas City Literary Festival
On May 19 a group of venues on the Plaza will play host to the new Kansas City Literary Festival, and one of them will be an Irish pub session involving Bloomsday Books.
UPDATE: More info on the Irish writers participating in this great new FREE community event. Malachy McCourt, author of A Monk Swimming and Singing Him My Song, speaks on the Main Stage, Nichols Road and Broadway, at noon, and joins fellow Irish writer Larry Kirwan for a discussion at 2:30 p.m. at O’Dowd’s, 4742 Pennsylvania Ave.
Among the Irish writers appearing is Malachy McCourt. Malachy of course was famous for being Malachy McCourt before he became famous for being Frank McCourt’s brother, yet whenever Angela’s Ashes is brought up he says how pleased he is that Frank wrote that book, as it documents his childhood as he remembers it.
UPDATE: The other Irish writer for the session with McCourt is Larry Kirwan.
Malachy himself is just one of the top tier of over fifty authors participating in this new festival celebrating reading, writing, and books.
This being March, there is an interview in The X with Malachy by Adam Torres:
This year is a break compared to last year, though, when McCourt ran for governor of New York on the Green Party’s ticket. He was hoping to get 50,000 votes to get the Green Party on the ballot in future elections.
“I came about 5,000 votes short,” he said. “I had thought about running for awhile. People need to have a choice.”
Running for election is just one of the many things McCourt has done in his life. The one thing he wants people to know is about his struggle with alcoholism.
“If someone wants to get something out of my life, that’s it,” he said. “You may be thinking you are having fun, but you are not.”
Here is Malachy in a five minute clip talking to James Michael Taylor about his book Malachy McCourt’s History of Ireland:
Sometimes I really like what McCourt says, and sometimes I wince. McCourt is nothing if not entertaining.
I’ve been sitting on this since last summer awaiting confirmation of McCourt and other writers, and indeed suggesting some, but the Kansas City Star reported it a couple of weeks ago, which Tony’s Kansas City picked up on immediately, and it’s gettng kind of close - for a festival.
See Also:
• Absurd Irish Celebration
• Irish Poet Desmond Egan at Rockhurst, Kansas City, MO
• 123 Book Meme
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