McCourt, Alphie

Alphie McCourt, the youngest of the McCourt brothers, was born in 1940, at home, in Barrack Hill, in Limerick. After immigrating to the US in 1959 he has lived in Canada, California and New York where he now resides with his wife Lynn and daughter Allison. He has published a memoir, A Long Stone's Throw (Sterling & Ross), in 2008. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Southampton Review, The Villager (New York), The Limerick Leader, The Irish Times, Revival Literary Journal and Icons Magazine. See www.alphiemccourt.com. A Long Stone's Throw and several stories were recorded with...