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When I look back on my childhood,...
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...I wonder how my brothers and I
managed to survive at all.
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It was, of course,
a miserable childhood.
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The happy childhood
is hardly worth your while.
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Worse than the ordinary
miserable childhood...
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...is the miserable
Irish childhood.
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And worse yet is the miserable
Irish Catholic childhood.
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You beautiful wee thing.
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You are. Look at you.
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So gorgeous.
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What is it ?
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It's a beautiful wee girl,
Mrs Leibowitz.
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After four boys. Can you believe it ?
A wee girl.
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What name is it, Malachy ?
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It's Margaret Mary.
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Oh, she's so beautiful,
Minnie.
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Brown hair and blue eyes.
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Just like her mom.
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Beautiful wee thing.
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Aren't you ?
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Come on, Eugene.
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Oliver, come on. Splash.
Eugene, come on. Stop crying.
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Good boy.
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We're in the bath. Bubbles.
Don't cry, Eugene. Don't cry.
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- Hey, Eugene, look at my bum. Ooh.
- Malachy, stop showing your bum.
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I'm only trying
to make them laugh.
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Come on, Oliver.
Come on. Stop crying.
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Sweet Jesus in heaven,
Malachy.
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She's awful quiet, Angela.
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A wee bit cold.
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I'll get Mrs Leibowitz.
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Everyone loved little Margaret.
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Dad said there must have been a holiday
in heaven the day this baby was made.
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Dad said he would
get a job soon...
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...and buy her dresses of silk
and shoes with silver buckles.
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Poor little Margaret.
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Just a few days in this world
and she was taken back...
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...by the same angels
who brought her here.
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- God, look at these twins.
- Stop crying, Ollie.
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Eugene, please.
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Frankie, I can't do this.
Where do I put the pin ?
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Me dad said
he was going for cigarettes,...
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...and the twins
just screamed and screamed.
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Thank God for Mrs Leibowitz
who lived upstairs.
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Boys, oh, my.
What happened to you, huh ?
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Where's your mother ?
What do you want ?
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We've got no dinner.
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Now eat
just a little bit more.
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Come on, Angela.
You have to eat.
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Good. Good. Good.
Good. Good. Good.
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Come on. Come on.
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Mommy.
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Oh, my God.
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The children
are naked, Delia.
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Where did Angela get
such filthy habits ?
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Her mother
was always spotless.
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Yech !
The stink is awful !
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It's the twins.
Their arses are shitty.
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It's a mouth like a sewer
you have. No wonder.
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With a father
from the North of Ireland...
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...with his funny manner
and his Protestant ways.
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You could go to hell saying a thing
like that. Where is your father ?
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He went for cigarettes.
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- Two days ago.
- I'll break his face, I swear.
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Dad will be home soon.
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Come on, Oliver.
Come on, Eugene.
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Get paper and a pen, Delia.
We have a letter to write.
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My aunts wrote to my mam's mother...
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...to send money
for the tickets.
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We must have been the only
Irish family in history...
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...to be saying good-bye to
the Statue of Liberty instead of hello.
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We were going back to Ireland
where there was no work...
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...and people were dying
of the starvation and the damp.
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It made no sense to me,
but what did I know.
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I was only five
going on six.
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Christ, look at that coat.
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Get you buttoned up.
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There we are now.
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I'll take him
to the lavatories,...
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...then I'm off to see
the I.R.A. man for me money.
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Francis, you can come with me
for the company, eh ?
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I'll be needing him
to help me here.
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Won't I be needing him
to help me carry all the money ?
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All right, Frankie, you can
go with your pop. Malachy !
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Malachy, don't go
to the lavatory there.
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- I can't stop.
- Peeing all over me.
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It's coming out.
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Da, Da, wait for me.
I wanna go.
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No record ?
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But I did my bit
for Ireland.
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I fought with the Flying Columns
during the Troubles.
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Had a price on my head.
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Had to be smuggled
to America.
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There's no record
of your service here. None.
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But I have a wife
and four children.
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I'm raising my sons
to love Ireland.
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Look. Please.
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We have nothing.
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I'm sorry. We can't
be handing out money...
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...to every man
who wanders in here...
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...saying he did his bit
for Ireland.
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I'll look into your claim.
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I'll let you know
what turns up.
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Here's money for the bus
back into the city.
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You couldn't add to that
to make the price of a pint, could you ?
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It's the drink
you're after, is it ?
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One pint
is hardly a drink.
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You'd make that child walk back
into Dublin because you're after a pint ?
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Remember this, Francis,
this is the new Ireland.
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Wee men in wee chairs
with wee bits of paper.
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I think you should leave.
Declan, the door.
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And don't bother
coming back.
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This is the Ireland
men died for, is it ?
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Come on, Frankie.
Free, my arse.
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We're not handing out money
to support the Guinness family.
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He wanted to marry her off
to the King of Sicily.
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But the beautiful
young Wilgefortis,...
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...she didn't want to be marrying
no scabby old man, did she ?
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So, she prayed to God
for help.
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And do you know
what he did, Frankie ?
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No, what did he do ?
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He grew a moustache
and a beard on her face.
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- He didn't.
- He did.
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Malachy,
move away from that window.
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Frank, take Eugene,
and don't forget your bag.
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Put your coat on.
Malachy, put your coat on now.
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I'm telling you
I'll kick you so hard.
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Here. There you go.
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Oliver's been sick on my jumper.
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Hello, Mam.
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Oh, come on.
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This is Malachy.
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Mrs Sheehan,
pleased to meet you.
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And Aggie.
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Hi, Aggie.
How are you ?
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And Pat.
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Hi, Pat.
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What are you staring at ?
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Nothing.
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Grandma said she had
no room for us in her house,...
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...so she gave us 10 shillings
for two weeks' rent...
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...in an upstairs room
in Windmill Street,...
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...near my mam's sister Aggie.
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- Mind yourself, Mrs Sheehan.
- Look at that.
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- I'll take the weight.
- Why is the heart on fire ?
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It's the sacred heart
of Jesus.
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Don't these children
know anything about their religion ?
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Ah, mom, it's different
in America.
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The Sacred Heart is everywhere.
Even in America.
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There's no excuse
for that kind of ignorance.
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Look. That's the Baby Jesus.
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And if you ever need anything,
you should pray to him.
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Will you tell Jesus
that we're hungry ?
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Shut up !
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- Ma !
- Ma !
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They're biting me !
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- Mom, I'm bleeding !
- Hold your noise now.
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Look ! Look at Malachy !
His arm's all bloody !
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It's the fleas, Angela.
They're everywhere.
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- Malachy, out of the bed.
- Jesus, will we get no rest ?
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- Malachy, come on. Pull.
- Let's take the mattress downstairs.
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- Pull, Malachy, pull.
- Come on. Come to me.
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- Get the mattress downstairs.
- There's fleas on the floor !
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- That's it, on the ground.
- Ouch !
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Malachy, we're surely gonna
catch our death out here...
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...and you'll be getting pneumonia.
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Me dad said that if a man
could jump like a flea,...
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...one leap would take him
halfway to the moon.
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Once a flea has bit a human being,
the smell of blood is too much for them.
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They're ready
for the lunatic asylum.
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They were brought over by the English,
to keep us up at night...
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...and drive us
out of our wits entirely.
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Because the English knew
that the fleas,...
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...they multiply faster
than the Hindus.
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- What's the water for, Dad ?
- They do. They do !
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I wouldn't put it past the English.
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St. Patrick drove the snakes out of
Ireland ; the English brought the fleas.
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And the damp.
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We loved our dad's stories.
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Hey, wait a minute.
I need some coal.
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I've got a docket here
from St. Vincent de Paul.
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Mister, please.
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Francis. Fra...
put that down.
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Don't pick coal
off the road.
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We're not beggars.
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It's terrible. Look.
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No pride, Frankie.
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Come on !
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I can't believe you.
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This baby's sick,
and he needs a hot drink.
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Now, if you're too grand
to pick coal off the road, I'm not.
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Frankie. Malachy !
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Okay, come on. Let's go.
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Oh, shit !
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Malachy, come on.
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Angela, come on.
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It's a rabbit she is,
that Angela.
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I don't see why we should
be paying for her mistakes.
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Five born and one gone and so useless
she can't even scrub a floor.
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Go easy with the sugar.
We're not millionaires.
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She was always angry, was Aunt Aggie.
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Me dad said it was a good thing she
didn't own the stable in Bethlehem...
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...or the Holy Family would be wandering
the world still crumbling with hunger.
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I swear the skinny fella's
the image of his father.
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Aye, with the odd look
and the sour puss and all.
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I think this fella likes me.
'Tis Al Jolson he thinks I am.
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I think we'll keep
this little fella.
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- No, he's our brother !
- That's Eugene.
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- You can't keep him.
- Don't bother.
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I wouldn't want anything that was half
Limerick and half North of Ireland.
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- You should be so lucky.
- Don't worry. I'll have me own someday.
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If I have to crawl to Lourdes
on me two bended knees.
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Oh, did you bang your foot ?
Show me your foot.
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I'll go down to Thompsons
the undertakers...
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...to see about the coffin
and the carriage.
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The St. Vincent de Paul Society
will surely pay for that.
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God knows.
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Oh, son.
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Jesus, I said to meself,
I have so much gas in my system,...
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...'tis a great pity
to waste it.
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So I shove a pipe up my arse,
light a match to it...
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...and there I have a fine flame
ready to boil water in any billy can.
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The English come from trenches...
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...to pay me any amount of money
to boil their water.
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That's no story to be telling
in the presence of a dead child.
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'Tis better than sitting
with a long face.
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I made so much money in the trenches
that I was able to bribe the generals,...
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...who didn't normally
give a fiddler's fart about the Irish,...
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...to let me out of the army,
and off I went to Paris,...
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...where I had a fine time
drinking wine...
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...with the models and artists
and talkin' the lingo.
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You think that's funny, do you ?
I had a great time over there.
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Requiem aeternam dona ei,
Domine, et luxperpetua luceat ei.
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Requiescat in pace.
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Anima eius, et anime omnium
fidelium defunctorum,...
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...per misericordiam Dei,
requiescant in pacem.
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In nomine Patris, et Filii,
et Spiritus Sancti.
238
00:19:19,663 --> 00:19:22,383
Amen.
239
00:19:42,863 --> 00:19:46,543
I don't know why we can't keep Oliver.
240
00:19:46,623 --> 00:19:49,463
I don't know why they sent him
away in a box like my sister.
241
00:19:53,183 --> 00:19:55,783
It's not right.
242
00:19:55,863 --> 00:19:59,423
I wish I could say something
to someone.
243
00:20:12,383 --> 00:20:15,263
Dad said he was going
to the Labor Exchange to get the dole.
244
00:20:15,343 --> 00:20:18,863
He'd be home by noon, he said,
and he'd have rashers and eggs and tea.
245
00:20:25,023 --> 00:20:27,783
He wasn't home by noon...
246
00:20:27,863 --> 00:20:29,783
- ...or 1.00...
- On your feet.
247
00:20:29,863 --> 00:20:32,263
...or 2.00...
248
00:20:32,343 --> 00:20:37,023
...or anytime before the sun
went down that day in May.
249
00:20:43,543 --> 00:20:46,183
Fight ! Fight !
250
00:20:46,263 --> 00:20:48,943
Fight ! Fight ! Fight !
Fight ! Fight ! Fight !
251
00:21:02,383 --> 00:21:05,223
Come here. Stop ! Quit that now !
Quit ! Stop, I said !
252
00:21:05,303 --> 00:21:07,143
Quit now !
253
00:21:07,223 --> 00:21:09,503
You little hooligan.
254
00:21:09,583 --> 00:21:12,183
Is that the kind of behavior
you brought from America ? Is it ?
255
00:21:12,223 --> 00:21:15,023
Well, you come on with me.
256
00:21:15,103 --> 00:21:17,183
I'll put the fighting
out of you, boy.
257
00:21:17,263 --> 00:21:19,863
My little
Yankee Doodle Dandy.
258
00:21:19,903 --> 00:21:22,743
The masters at Leamy's
School all have straps and sticks.
259
00:21:22,783 --> 00:21:25,703
They hit you if you don't know
that God made the world,...
260
00:21:25,783 --> 00:21:27,743
...or if you don't know
the patron saint of Limerick.
261
00:21:27,823 --> 00:21:29,743
They hit you if you can't say
the Hail Maryin Irish...
262
00:21:29,823 --> 00:21:31,863
...or if you can't ask
for the lavatory pass in Irish.
263
00:21:31,903 --> 00:21:35,303
They hit you if you laugh,
if you're late, if you talk.
264
00:21:35,383 --> 00:21:37,543
One master will hit you if you
don't know that Eamon De Valera...
265
00:21:37,623 --> 00:21:39,743
...was the greatest man
that ever lived.
266
00:21:39,823 --> 00:21:41,823
Another will hit you if you don't know
that Michael Collins...
267
00:21:41,903 --> 00:21:43,823
...was the greatest man
that ever lived.
268
00:21:43,903 --> 00:21:46,543
McCourt.
269
00:22:05,463 --> 00:22:09,943
You're a bad Yank, McCourt.
What are you ?
270
00:22:09,983 --> 00:22:14,143
They said we were cowboys
and gangsters, sir.
271
00:22:14,223 --> 00:22:16,463
- I was only joking, sir.
- No more jokes.
272
00:22:16,543 --> 00:22:18,543
- It's not their fault they're Yanks.
- T'isn't, sir.
273
00:22:18,623 --> 00:22:21,423
You should go down
on your two knees every night...
274
00:22:21,503 --> 00:22:24,223
...and give thanks to God
that you're not a Yank.
275
00:22:24,303 --> 00:22:27,343
If you were, Al Capone himself would be
coming to you for instruction.
276
00:22:35,543 --> 00:22:38,103
I know Oliver is dead.
277
00:22:38,183 --> 00:22:40,423
Malachy knows
Oliver is dead,...
278
00:22:40,503 --> 00:22:44,263
...but little Eugene is only two
and too small to know anything.
279
00:22:44,343 --> 00:22:46,183
Malachy and I make him laugh,...
280
00:22:46,263 --> 00:22:48,103
...pull faces,
put pots on our heads,...
281
00:22:48,183 --> 00:22:51,503
...take him to the park,
show him the flowers.
282
00:22:51,583 --> 00:22:56,263
Me dad says Eugene is lucky to have
such brothers like me and Malachy.
283
00:23:10,783 --> 00:23:12,623
He died anyway.
284
00:23:12,703 --> 00:23:14,543
Ma.
285
00:23:26,183 --> 00:23:29,543
Please, God,...
286
00:23:29,623 --> 00:23:32,263
...is this what you want, is it ?
287
00:23:32,343 --> 00:23:36,343
I'm not supposed
to question this, am I ?
288
00:23:38,183 --> 00:23:42,903
You took my son, Oliver.
289
00:23:42,943 --> 00:23:45,503
You took his brother, Eugene.
290
00:23:46,943 --> 00:23:50,103
You took their beautiful
wee sister, Margaret Mary.
291
00:23:52,223 --> 00:23:56,223
Dear God above,...
292
00:23:56,303 --> 00:23:59,823
...why do you want
the wee children to die ?
293
00:24:14,263 --> 00:24:18,303
Please, God, don't let Malachy
and me and the rest of us...
294
00:24:18,383 --> 00:24:22,303
...be taken off in the box
for the hole in the ground.
295
00:24:22,383 --> 00:24:25,823
Or even Aunt Aggie
or Mr Benson at Leamy's School.
296
00:24:25,903 --> 00:24:30,343
In the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Toast.
297
00:25:15,943 --> 00:25:17,863
Be going
in a minute, son.
298
00:25:17,943 --> 00:25:20,223
No, that's Eugene's coffin.
299
00:25:20,263 --> 00:25:22,623
I'll tell mam you put your pint
on Eugene's coffin.
300
00:25:22,663 --> 00:25:25,783
- Have another pint, mister.
- Will you wait outside a few minutes ?
301
00:25:25,863 --> 00:25:27,903
- No !
- Jesus, if that was my son,...
302
00:25:27,943 --> 00:25:30,583
...I'd kick his arse
from here to County Kerry.
303
00:25:30,663 --> 00:25:34,663
I mean, if a man can't have a pint
on the day of a funeral,...
304
00:25:34,743 --> 00:25:36,623
...what use
is living at all ?
305
00:26:13,623 --> 00:26:17,983
I couldn't have spent
another minute in that room.
306
00:26:18,023 --> 00:26:21,463
I saw me little twins
morning, noon and night.
307
00:26:21,543 --> 00:26:24,343
If we hadn't have moved,
I'd have gone out of my mind...
308
00:26:24,423 --> 00:26:26,823
...and ended up
in the lunatic asylum.
309
00:26:30,503 --> 00:26:35,183
I'm sorry, but it was
only five months ago.
310
00:26:35,263 --> 00:26:39,783
And before that,
I lost my little girl in New York.
311
00:26:39,863 --> 00:26:43,383
And I've the two boys here
and I've one on the way.
312
00:26:43,463 --> 00:26:45,503
Ah, now, missus,
sit down, will you ?
313
00:26:45,543 --> 00:26:47,423
Thanks.
314
00:26:50,823 --> 00:26:52,863
That's a nice coat
you're wearing.
315
00:26:52,903 --> 00:26:56,743
It was given to me
by my cousin in Brooklyn. It's not new.
316
00:26:57,783 --> 00:27:00,663
McCourt. That's not
a Limerick name.
317
00:27:00,743 --> 00:27:02,703
Where'd you get
a name like that ?
318
00:27:02,783 --> 00:27:04,703
My husband, sir.
He's from the North.
319
00:27:04,743 --> 00:27:08,023
Why don't you go to Belfast and see
what they can do for you up there ?
320
00:27:10,343 --> 00:27:12,503
I don't know, sir.
321
00:27:12,583 --> 00:27:14,423
Of course you don't know.
322
00:27:14,503 --> 00:27:16,383
There's great ignorance
in the world.
323
00:27:16,463 --> 00:27:18,463
I said there's a great deal
of ignorance in the world.
324
00:27:22,583 --> 00:27:24,983
And what do you want
from us ?
325
00:27:25,063 --> 00:27:28,063
There isn't a stick of furniture
in the new place.
326
00:27:28,143 --> 00:27:32,783
- Does your husband have a job ?
- No, sir, he's on the dole.
327
00:27:36,423 --> 00:27:39,583
We'll give you a docket
for a table, two chairs and two beds.
328
00:27:39,623 --> 00:27:42,503
You can take it to the second hand
furniture shop in Irish town.
329
00:27:42,543 --> 00:27:45,463
Excuse me, sir,
but will the beds be second hand ?
330
00:27:45,543 --> 00:27:47,783
Of course they will.
331
00:27:47,863 --> 00:27:50,543
I'm worried about sleeping
in beds people might have died in.
332
00:27:50,623 --> 00:27:52,543
Especially if they died
of the consumption.
333
00:27:52,583 --> 00:27:56,463
Beggars can't be choosers,
Mrs McCourt.
334
00:27:59,543 --> 00:28:02,023
Thanks.
335
00:28:53,143 --> 00:28:55,663
I should say
it's a good fire.
336
00:28:57,743 --> 00:28:59,743
Could it be true.
337
00:28:59,823 --> 00:29:02,023
Hey, hey,
that's my wife.
338
00:29:02,063 --> 00:29:03,943
Someone like you.
339
00:29:03,983 --> 00:29:06,783
Who's he ?
340
00:29:06,823 --> 00:29:11,263
That, Francis,
is Pope Leo XIII,...
341
00:29:11,343 --> 00:29:14,023
...and he was a great friend
of the working man.
342
00:29:14,063 --> 00:29:17,223
You know, I found this in an alley
in Brooklyn in someone's rubbish.
343
00:29:17,303 --> 00:29:20,063
No doubt thrown away by some eejit
that had no time for the working man.
344
00:29:20,103 --> 00:29:22,023
Ugh, what's that stink ?
345
00:29:22,063 --> 00:29:25,543
Hey, what are you doing ?
346
00:29:25,623 --> 00:29:27,743
Why are you emptying your bucket
in our lavatory ?
347
00:29:27,783 --> 00:29:31,423
Your lavatory, mister ? Ah, no.
I think you're mistaken there.
348
00:29:31,463 --> 00:29:33,503
This here is the lavatory
for the whole lane, it is.
349
00:29:33,583 --> 00:29:36,783
The buckets of 11 families
get flushed down here every day.
350
00:29:36,863 --> 00:29:39,143
And it gets fairly powerful here
in the warm weather.
351
00:29:39,223 --> 00:29:41,343
So powerful you'll be
calling for a gas mask.
352
00:29:41,383 --> 00:29:43,623
So, good night to you.
Missus.
353
00:29:43,703 --> 00:29:45,783
I hope you'll be happy
in the house.
354
00:29:45,863 --> 00:29:49,103
Thanks very much.
355
00:29:49,263 --> 00:29:53,063
And there was this big man, and he
came along and he met this woman,...
356
00:29:53,143 --> 00:29:56,143
...and he grew a big huge beard
all over her face,...
357
00:29:56,223 --> 00:29:58,663
...and then they got married.
358
00:30:16,623 --> 00:30:18,503
Have we moved again,
Frankie ?
359
00:30:18,543 --> 00:30:20,903
No, they wouldn't go
without the Pope.
360
00:30:36,903 --> 00:30:41,383
Oh,Jesus, look at the state of youse.
Couple of drowning rats.
361
00:30:41,463 --> 00:30:43,263
Get your wet clothes off,
dry yourself by the fire,...
362
00:30:43,303 --> 00:30:46,503
...and say hello
to your brother Michael.
363
00:30:48,503 --> 00:30:50,343
He's fatter
than the Baby Jesus.
364
00:30:50,423 --> 00:30:53,703
He's the spitting image of your dead
little sister...
365
00:30:53,743 --> 00:30:56,823
...with the lovely blue eyes
and the gorgeous eyebrows.
366
00:30:56,903 --> 00:30:58,743
Why are we
all upstairs ?
367
00:30:58,823 --> 00:31:02,463
The downstairs is full of the damp.
It's killing us one by one.
368
00:31:02,503 --> 00:31:05,503
That lavatory could kill us
with every class of disease.
369
00:31:05,583 --> 00:31:08,023
It was the Limerick damp
that killed your wee brothers.
370
00:31:08,103 --> 00:31:10,823
We'll be dry up here for now.
We'll go downstairs for the spring.
371
00:31:10,903 --> 00:31:13,463
It's like going away on holiday
to a nice, warm, foreign place,...
372
00:31:13,543 --> 00:31:15,383
...like... like Italy.
373
00:31:15,463 --> 00:31:17,303
- Italy ?
- Aye, we could be in Sorrento.
374
00:31:17,383 --> 00:31:19,263
Calcutta, more like.
375
00:31:19,343 --> 00:31:22,983
- What about the Pope ?
- He can stay downstairs in Ireland.
376
00:31:23,063 --> 00:31:26,743
Will you look at the state
of those children's shoes ?
377
00:31:26,823 --> 00:31:28,743
I can't go to the St. Vincent's
for boots.
378
00:31:28,823 --> 00:31:31,943
I'm too weak to be standing
in the queue.
379
00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:35,303
There was a woman who had triplets
waiting forever in that queue.
380
00:31:35,343 --> 00:31:38,343
Have you no pride, Angela,
begging like that ?
381
00:31:38,423 --> 00:31:41,063
What would you do,
Mr Grand Manner ?
382
00:31:41,143 --> 00:31:43,103
You'd let them go barefoot
before you got off your arse,...
383
00:31:43,143 --> 00:31:44,583
...useless feck that you are.
384
00:31:49,103 --> 00:31:50,423
Right.
385
00:31:50,503 --> 00:31:52,383
Useless feck, is it ?
386
00:31:52,423 --> 00:31:54,303
We'll see.
387
00:32:15,063 --> 00:32:16,903
It's poor I am.
388
00:32:20,383 --> 00:32:22,663
It's unlucky I am.
389
00:32:28,183 --> 00:32:30,143
But it's useless...
390
00:32:34,343 --> 00:32:35,943
I'm not.
391
00:32:49,023 --> 00:32:51,703
Look at those shoes !
392
00:33:29,423 --> 00:33:31,423
- Where are your shoes ?
- Don't know, sir.
393
00:33:31,503 --> 00:33:34,063
Of course you know, boy.
Where are they ?
394
00:33:34,143 --> 00:33:36,823
Did your mommy not put
on your shoes this morning ?
395
00:33:36,903 --> 00:33:39,383
Did you come to school
without shoes, did you ?
396
00:33:39,463 --> 00:33:42,863
How many times have you been told about
walking the streets in your bare feet ?
397
00:33:42,943 --> 00:33:46,103
By God, I'll boot
the bare feet out of you, boy.
398
00:33:54,023 --> 00:33:56,023
Put them on, boy.
399
00:34:01,543 --> 00:34:04,063
Quiet !
400
00:34:04,143 --> 00:34:07,263
Do I hear sneering
in this class ?
401
00:34:07,303 --> 00:34:10,463
Do I hear jeering
at another's misfortune ?
402
00:34:10,543 --> 00:34:13,583
Is there any boy in this class
who thinks he's perfect ?
403
00:34:13,663 --> 00:34:16,623
If so, raise your hands.
404
00:34:16,703 --> 00:34:20,223
Is there any boy here now who has money
galore to be spending on shoes ?
405
00:34:20,263 --> 00:34:22,623
Raise your hands.
406
00:34:22,703 --> 00:34:25,143
No.
407
00:34:25,223 --> 00:34:29,343
There are boys in this class
who have no shoes at all,...
408
00:34:29,423 --> 00:34:32,863
...and it's not
their fault.
409
00:34:32,943 --> 00:34:34,783
It's not their shame.
410
00:34:34,863 --> 00:34:37,423
Our Lord had no shoes.
411
00:34:37,503 --> 00:34:41,623
He died shoeless.
412
00:34:41,703 --> 00:34:45,943
You don't see Him
hanging on the cross sporting shoes.
413
00:34:46,023 --> 00:34:49,103
- Do you, boys ?
- No, sir !
414
00:34:49,183 --> 00:34:51,023
What is it you don't see
Our Lord doing ?
415
00:34:51,103 --> 00:34:54,463
Hanging on the cross
sporting shoes.
416
00:34:54,543 --> 00:34:57,343
"Hanging on the cross
sporting shoes," what ?
417
00:34:57,383 --> 00:35:01,463
Hanging on the cross
sporting shoes, sir.
418
00:35:03,303 --> 00:35:07,023
Everyday,
me dad would look for a job,...
419
00:35:07,103 --> 00:35:09,823
- ...somehow, he never seemed to get one.
- We've enough for today.
420
00:35:09,863 --> 00:35:13,303
- Mam said it was his Northern accent.
- No work here. Sorry.
421
00:35:13,383 --> 00:35:17,863
Grandma said it was because
of his funny manner.
422
00:35:30,063 --> 00:35:33,783
Me dad knew those
lanes like the back of his hand.
423
00:35:33,863 --> 00:35:36,543
He walked them often enough
when he couldn't get work...
424
00:35:36,583 --> 00:35:39,303
...and was too ashamed
to come home to me mam.
425
00:35:43,623 --> 00:35:46,063
That's why
we loved Easter.
426
00:35:46,143 --> 00:35:49,943
Because it was at Easter
that me dad got his first job.
427
00:35:54,823 --> 00:35:57,543
The dipsy doodle
is the thing to beware
428
00:35:57,623 --> 00:36:00,263
The dipsy doodle
is gonna get in your hair
429
00:36:00,343 --> 00:36:02,943
And if it gets to you
it couldn't be worse
430
00:36:02,983 --> 00:36:05,663
The things you say
will all come out in reverse
431
00:36:05,743 --> 00:36:08,063
Don't go
up the mine, Manny
432
00:36:08,143 --> 00:36:10,823
That's the way
the dipsy doodle works
433
00:36:10,903 --> 00:36:12,943
The dipsy doodle
is a way to do fine
434
00:36:13,023 --> 00:36:16,223
It's almost always
at the back of your mind
435
00:36:16,303 --> 00:36:19,343
You never know it's there
until it's too late
436
00:36:19,423 --> 00:36:21,463
And then you get
in such a terrible state
437
00:36:21,543 --> 00:36:23,663
Will you stop it ?
438
00:36:23,743 --> 00:36:26,103
Maybe if you weren't
strangling me, I'd be fine.
439
00:36:26,183 --> 00:36:29,583
- Stop it.
- When you think you're crazy.
440
00:36:29,663 --> 00:36:32,863
It was only
at the Limerick Cement Factory,...
441
00:36:32,903 --> 00:36:35,023
...but he still wore
a collar and tie.
442
00:36:35,103 --> 00:36:38,503
He said a man without a tie
had no respect for himself.
443
00:36:48,943 --> 00:36:51,383
Come on.
444
00:37:02,823 --> 00:37:07,063
In Mount joy jail
445
00:37:07,143 --> 00:37:09,983
One Monday morning
446
00:37:10,023 --> 00:37:14,743
High upon the gallows tree
447
00:37:14,823 --> 00:37:18,903
Kevin Barry
gave his young life
448
00:37:18,983 --> 00:37:22,583
For the cause
of liberty
449
00:37:22,663 --> 00:37:24,543
For Jesus' sake,
put a sockin it !
450
00:37:24,623 --> 00:37:26,983
Some of us have to go
to feckin' work in the morning !
451
00:37:27,063 --> 00:37:31,743
Yet there's
no one can deny
452
00:37:31,783 --> 00:37:35,383
As he walked to death
that morning
453
00:37:35,463 --> 00:37:38,623
He proudly
held his head
454
00:37:43,263 --> 00:37:45,143
His head up high
455
00:37:51,223 --> 00:37:53,623
Francis ! Malachy !
456
00:38:00,423 --> 00:38:03,263
Come down here, boys.
I have the Friday penny for you.
457
00:38:03,303 --> 00:38:06,103
No. Be quiet.
458
00:38:06,183 --> 00:38:09,823
Up, boys !
459
00:38:09,863 --> 00:38:13,663
Those Red Branch Knights !
460
00:38:13,703 --> 00:38:15,983
Those Fenian men !
461
00:38:16,063 --> 00:38:18,903
The glorious I.R.A. !
462
00:38:18,983 --> 00:38:22,623
Up ! Up ! Up !
463
00:38:43,023 --> 00:38:46,623
I have the Friday penny
for you, boys.
464
00:38:46,703 --> 00:38:48,663
You line up
like soldiers now,...
465
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:51,823
...and promise to die
for Ireland.
466
00:38:51,903 --> 00:38:55,263
- I don't want it.
- I don't want it either.
467
00:39:00,583 --> 00:39:02,463
Damn !
468
00:39:07,623 --> 00:39:09,583
When we woke up the next morning,...
469
00:39:09,663 --> 00:39:11,503
...he was still asleep.
470
00:39:11,583 --> 00:39:13,823
He missed work
and lost his job.
471
00:39:34,983 --> 00:39:37,503
And what do I have here,
Clohessy ?
472
00:39:37,583 --> 00:39:40,063
Strips of newspaper, sir.
473
00:39:40,223 --> 00:39:42,703
And what do they
represent, Clohessy ?
474
00:39:42,783 --> 00:39:44,743
Pieces of
the Limerick Leader, sir.
475
00:39:44,823 --> 00:39:47,063
No !
476
00:39:47,103 --> 00:39:49,943
The body and blood
of Christ.
477
00:39:49,983 --> 00:39:52,303
If you don't pay more attention,
it'll be the Last Rites...
478
00:39:52,383 --> 00:39:54,503
...you'll be getting,
not your Holy Communion.
479
00:39:56,943 --> 00:39:59,663
Irish is the language
of patriots...
480
00:39:59,743 --> 00:40:03,423
...and English
of traitors and informers.
481
00:40:03,463 --> 00:40:06,223
But Latin...
ah, boys, Latin...
482
00:40:06,303 --> 00:40:09,183
...that the Holy Martyrs
spoke before expiring...
483
00:40:09,263 --> 00:40:11,943
...in the foaming mouths
of ravenous lions.
484
00:40:12,023 --> 00:40:16,263
Yes, it's Latin that gains
entrance to heaven itself.
485
00:40:16,343 --> 00:40:18,143
But there are boys
in this class...
486
00:40:18,223 --> 00:40:21,983
...who will never know
Sanctifying Grace.
487
00:40:22,023 --> 00:40:24,663
And why ?
Because of greed.
488
00:40:24,703 --> 00:40:27,903
Those greedy little black guards
are talking even now...
489
00:40:27,943 --> 00:40:31,383
...about the money they'll
get from the Collection.
490
00:40:31,423 --> 00:40:36,023
They'll go from house to house
in their little suits like beggars.
491
00:40:36,063 --> 00:40:37,943
And will they take
any of that money...
492
00:40:37,983 --> 00:40:42,703
...and send it to the poor black babies
in Africa as they should ?
493
00:40:42,783 --> 00:40:44,823
Oh, no.
494
00:40:44,863 --> 00:40:49,543
It's off to the cinema
the First Communion boys will go...
495
00:40:49,623 --> 00:40:54,263
...to wallow
in the disgusting filth...
496
00:40:54,303 --> 00:40:59,063
...spewed across the world
by the devil's henchmen...
497
00:40:59,103 --> 00:41:01,823
...in Hollywood.
498
00:41:01,863 --> 00:41:04,823
- Isn't that right, McCourt ?
- 'Tis, sir.
499
00:41:04,863 --> 00:41:08,583
Don't speak, you ! Can't you see
that God is on your tongue ?
500
00:41:08,663 --> 00:41:11,703
Where is God, boys ?
501
00:41:11,743 --> 00:41:14,463
On his tongue, sir.
502
00:41:14,503 --> 00:41:16,383
On his tongue.
503
00:41:19,343 --> 00:41:21,783
My friend, Mikey Molloy,...
504
00:41:21,823 --> 00:41:23,743
...tells us all about
how much money we'll make...
505
00:41:23,783 --> 00:41:25,703
...at the Collection
after our First Communion,...
506
00:41:25,783 --> 00:41:27,663
...when we all knock
on the neighbors' doors...
507
00:41:27,743 --> 00:41:30,783
...and get as much as five shillings
for sweets and cakes...
508
00:41:30,863 --> 00:41:33,303
...and even go to the Lyric Cinema
to see James Cagney.
509
00:41:33,383 --> 00:41:36,583
- I seen it three times.
- What happens in it ?
510
00:41:36,663 --> 00:41:40,343
Also, Mikey is the expert
in the lane on girls' bodies...
511
00:41:40,383 --> 00:41:42,503
...and dirty things
in general.
512
00:41:42,583 --> 00:41:45,263
Now, on top, the girls
have great floppy things called titties.
513
00:41:45,343 --> 00:41:48,663
And at the end of them,
great red things like dogs' noses.
514
00:41:48,743 --> 00:41:52,463
And down at the bottom...
Now that's an entirely different matter.
515
00:41:52,543 --> 00:41:56,223
- They don't have a mickey down there.
- What do they have ?
516
00:41:56,263 --> 00:41:58,743
I can tell you, but I don't think
he should hear it.
517
00:41:58,783 --> 00:42:00,663
Malachy, go away.
518
00:42:02,983 --> 00:42:05,903
Eww ! Yuck !
519
00:42:12,903 --> 00:42:16,223
Oh, look, I'll take
one of these as well.
520
00:42:43,743 --> 00:42:47,463
In the name of the Father
and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost.
521
00:42:47,543 --> 00:42:50,703
Bless me, Father, for I have sinned.
This is my first confession.
522
00:42:50,783 --> 00:42:54,383
Yes, my child.
And what sins have you committed ?
523
00:42:54,463 --> 00:42:56,543
I told a lie,
I hit my brother,...
524
00:42:56,583 --> 00:42:59,023
...I stole a penny
from my mother's purse,...
525
00:42:59,103 --> 00:43:00,983
...and I ate a sausage
on Friday.
526
00:43:01,023 --> 00:43:03,183
Yes, my child,
anything else ?
527
00:43:03,263 --> 00:43:06,063
I listened to dirty things
about girls from the lanes...
528
00:43:06,143 --> 00:43:08,423
...who don't care what they do
because they...
529
00:43:08,503 --> 00:43:11,303
...because they've already
done it with their brothers.
530
00:43:11,383 --> 00:43:14,903
And who told you these things ?
531
00:43:14,943 --> 00:43:17,503
- Mikey Molloy, Father.
- Hmm.
532
00:43:17,583 --> 00:43:20,863
For your penance, say three Hail Marys,
three Our Fathers,...
533
00:43:20,903 --> 00:43:23,103
...and say a special
prayer for me.
534
00:43:23,183 --> 00:43:25,103
Am I one of the worst boys,
Father ?
535
00:43:25,183 --> 00:43:28,023
No, my child.
You have a long way to go.
536
00:43:30,823 --> 00:43:33,423
Wake up ! Wake up !
537
00:43:33,503 --> 00:43:36,823
His First Communion,
the happiest day of his life,...
538
00:43:36,903 --> 00:43:38,783
...and the lot of you
still snoring in there.
539
00:43:38,823 --> 00:43:42,143
Here, you two,
get up. Go on.
540
00:43:42,183 --> 00:43:44,743
Look at him.
A bar of soap wouldn't be lost on him.
541
00:43:44,823 --> 00:43:46,703
I'll be red raw.
542
00:43:46,783 --> 00:43:49,023
I swear it's
the Northern Ireland in you.
543
00:43:49,063 --> 00:43:50,943
It attracts the dirt.
544
00:43:50,983 --> 00:43:53,103
You've the dirty gob
of your father.
545
00:43:53,183 --> 00:43:54,823
Aah ! That's cold.
546
00:43:54,903 --> 00:43:57,263
Jesus, you have enough dirt
in your ears...
547
00:43:57,343 --> 00:43:59,903
...to grow potatoes.
548
00:43:59,943 --> 00:44:03,943
Will you look at that mop ?
It won't lie down.
549
00:44:04,023 --> 00:44:06,743
You didn't get this hair
from our side of the family.
550
00:44:06,783 --> 00:44:09,623
This is North of Ireland hair
you got from your father.
551
00:44:09,663 --> 00:44:13,023
It's like... like what
you'd see on a Presbyterian.
552
00:44:15,543 --> 00:44:17,623
Will you stop
spitting on me ?
553
00:44:17,663 --> 00:44:20,063
A little spit
won't kill you.
554
00:44:20,143 --> 00:44:23,663
If your mother had married a proper,
decent Limerick man,...
555
00:44:23,743 --> 00:44:26,783
...you wouldn't have stand-up,
North of Ireland, Protestant hair.
556
00:44:26,823 --> 00:44:28,703
And we wouldn't be late.
557
00:44:45,063 --> 00:44:48,343
Corpus Christi.
558
00:44:50,783 --> 00:44:53,303
Corpus Christi.
559
00:44:57,463 --> 00:44:59,703
Corpus Christi.
560
00:45:04,903 --> 00:45:07,583
Will you stop your clucking
and get back to your seat ?
561
00:45:09,503 --> 00:45:11,383
Corpus Christi.
562
00:45:19,463 --> 00:45:21,943
Mam, can I go now
and make the Collection ?
563
00:45:22,023 --> 00:45:24,663
I want to go to the Lyric
to see James Cagney.
564
00:45:24,703 --> 00:45:26,383
You can't make the Collection
until you've had...
565
00:45:26,463 --> 00:45:28,503
...a proper First Communion breakfast
at my house.
566
00:45:28,583 --> 00:45:30,063
Mam.
567
00:45:41,143 --> 00:45:43,503
Will you look at him ?
The manners of a pig.
568
00:45:43,583 --> 00:45:45,463
He eats like a Presbyterian.
569
00:45:45,543 --> 00:45:49,303
Is it a millionaire you think I am ?
An American ?
570
00:45:49,343 --> 00:45:51,383
Is there any more tea
in the pot, Mam ?
571
00:45:51,423 --> 00:45:53,903
- Aye.
- I could do with a cup.
572
00:45:53,983 --> 00:45:56,703
You allright, Frankie ?
573
00:45:56,743 --> 00:46:00,223
- What's the matter, Frankie ?
- What's wrong with that child ?
574
00:46:03,223 --> 00:46:06,463
Look what he did ! He's thrown up
the body and blood of Jesus.
575
00:46:06,503 --> 00:46:10,263
What am I to do ?
I have God in me backyard !
576
00:46:17,343 --> 00:46:19,183
I'm taking you
to the priest.
577
00:46:19,263 --> 00:46:21,823
That was a dreadful thing
you did in my backyard.
578
00:46:25,503 --> 00:46:28,103
In the name of The Father
and of The Son and of the Holy Ghost.
579
00:46:28,183 --> 00:46:30,023
Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.
580
00:46:30,103 --> 00:46:31,943
It's been a day
since my last confession.
581
00:46:32,023 --> 00:46:33,863
A day ?
582
00:46:33,943 --> 00:46:36,423
And what sins have you committed
in a day, my son ?
583
00:46:36,503 --> 00:46:39,463
I overslept, and I nearly missed
my First Communion.
584
00:46:39,543 --> 00:46:41,663
My hair stuck up
like a Protestant's,...
585
00:46:41,743 --> 00:46:44,343
...and I threw up my First
Holy Communion breakfast.
586
00:46:44,383 --> 00:46:48,543
Now me grandma says she has God
in her backyard and what shall she do ?
587
00:46:48,583 --> 00:46:52,383
Tell your grandma to wash it away
with a little water.
588
00:46:55,463 --> 00:46:57,663
Holy water
or ordinary water ?
589
00:46:57,703 --> 00:47:00,543
- He didn't say, Grandma.
- Well, go back and ask him.
590
00:47:06,943 --> 00:47:10,303
In the name of The Father
and of The Son and of The Holy Ghost.
591
00:47:10,383 --> 00:47:12,223
Forgive me, Father,
for I have sinned.
592
00:47:12,303 --> 00:47:14,583
It's been a minute
since my last confession.
593
00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:17,143
A minute ? Are you the boy
that was just here ?
594
00:47:17,183 --> 00:47:20,503
- I am, Father.
- What is it now ?
595
00:47:20,543 --> 00:47:24,303
My grandma says holy water
or ordinary water ?
596
00:47:27,423 --> 00:47:30,463
He says ordinary water,
and don't go bothering him again.
597
00:47:30,503 --> 00:47:32,263
Bothering him ?
598
00:47:32,343 --> 00:47:35,183
Well, the ignorant
old bog trotter.
599
00:47:37,383 --> 00:47:40,783
There wasn't anytime
for the Collection. Not a penny.
600
00:47:40,863 --> 00:47:43,383
So Mikey Molloy pretended
to have one of his fits...
601
00:47:43,463 --> 00:47:46,143
...so that I could slip in
when no one was looking.
602
00:47:46,183 --> 00:47:48,303
- Missus, quick, He's having a fit !
- Is he all right ?
603
00:47:48,383 --> 00:47:50,263
Mr O'Brien, quick !
604
00:47:54,503 --> 00:47:57,463
Watch he doesn't
swallow his tongue.
605
00:47:57,543 --> 00:48:01,663
Does anyone know what to do ?
606
00:48:01,703 --> 00:48:05,503
- No, don't. I'll do anything.
- Oh, no, you won't.
607
00:48:05,543 --> 00:48:07,703
You've had your last chance.
You can take this with you.
608
00:48:07,743 --> 00:48:10,503
Shoot him !
609
00:48:10,583 --> 00:48:13,183
All you
had to do was bump me off.
610
00:48:17,623 --> 00:48:20,343
- Do you want a toffee ?
- Thanks.
611
00:48:24,863 --> 00:48:26,743
I'm glad I did the First Communion.
612
00:48:26,823 --> 00:48:29,583
I'm glad I got my First Confession
over and done with.
613
00:48:29,663 --> 00:48:33,903
Now I'm free to grow up.
Old enough to be ten, anyway.
614
00:48:33,943 --> 00:48:37,143
Old enough to pay the ultimate penance
for growing up.
615
00:48:37,223 --> 00:48:39,143
Worse than joining
the army or the police...
616
00:48:39,223 --> 00:48:42,503
...or going to Australia
or becoming a nun in Africa.
617
00:48:42,583 --> 00:48:45,823
Worse than that,
I had to learn Irish dancing.
618
00:48:45,903 --> 00:48:49,943
I don't want to learn it.
Ow. What did you do that for ?
619
00:48:50,023 --> 00:48:52,143
Just don't want to learn
how to dance.
620
00:48:52,183 --> 00:48:54,063
...and back and back.
621
00:48:57,383 --> 00:49:01,103
Up and back
and one, two.
622
00:49:01,143 --> 00:49:03,783
Lift up your feet,
for the love of Jesus.
623
00:49:03,863 --> 00:49:07,183
One, two, three. And one, two, three.
And up and back, and one, two, three.
624
00:49:07,263 --> 00:49:09,223
And up and back,
andone, two, three.
625
00:49:09,303 --> 00:49:11,383
If my mates saw me
making a pure eejit out of meself...
626
00:49:11,463 --> 00:49:14,063
...at the Irish dancing,
I'd be disgraced forever.
627
00:49:14,143 --> 00:49:16,343
I want to be Fred Astaire.
628
00:49:16,423 --> 00:49:18,823
Irish dancers look like they have
steel rods stuck up their arses.
629
00:49:18,903 --> 00:49:21,103
Would you stop the frowning
Frankie McCourt ?
630
00:49:21,183 --> 00:49:23,223
You've a face on you
like a pound of tripe.
631
00:49:23,303 --> 00:49:27,223
And up and back, and one, two, three.
And up and back, and one, two, three.
632
00:49:29,143 --> 00:49:33,743
The next time I went to dancing lessons,
I bumped into Paddy Clohessy.
633
00:49:33,823 --> 00:49:35,703
- Hi, Frankie.
- Hiya, Paddy. How you doing ?
634
00:49:35,743 --> 00:49:38,743
- Not too bad. You ?
- Grand. Catch.
635
00:49:38,823 --> 00:49:41,823
Frankie, I'm telling you,
that dancing stuff is for sissies.
636
00:49:41,903 --> 00:49:43,783
You won't be able
to play football next.
637
00:49:43,863 --> 00:49:46,063
- I won't ?
- You'll be running around girlie-like.
638
00:49:46,103 --> 00:49:48,703
- Shut up.
- Everyone will be laughing at you.
639
00:49:48,783 --> 00:49:52,663
- They will ?
- Next thing, you'll be knitting socks.
640
00:50:00,503 --> 00:50:03,023
I was finished with the dancing.
641
00:50:03,103 --> 00:50:06,983
Every Saturday, my mam's sixpence
got me and Paddy into the Lyric...
642
00:50:07,063 --> 00:50:10,623
...with enough left to stuff our gobs
with Cleeves' toffee.
643
00:50:18,423 --> 00:50:20,503
Yay !
644
00:50:20,583 --> 00:50:24,023
I was so happy, I didn't know whether
to shit or go blind.
645
00:50:27,383 --> 00:50:30,383
Every week, I'd take the money
and skip the dancing...
646
00:50:30,423 --> 00:50:32,303
...and go to the pictures.
647
00:50:32,343 --> 00:50:34,703
When I got home,
I'd make up the dancing...
648
00:50:34,743 --> 00:50:37,303
- ...and pretend I had a poker up my arse.
- Well done, son.
649
00:50:38,903 --> 00:50:41,583
Hitler shows himself in his true colors.
650
00:50:41,623 --> 00:50:43,943
He marches his troops
into the Rhineland...
651
00:50:44,023 --> 00:50:46,703
...in defiance of the terms
of the Treaty of Versailles.
652
00:50:49,383 --> 00:50:51,983
The swastika
spreads its evil shadow.
653
00:50:53,983 --> 00:50:58,383
Sir, what use is Euclid when the Germans
are bombing everything in sight ?
654
00:50:58,423 --> 00:51:00,823
What use is Euclid ?
655
00:51:00,863 --> 00:51:02,943
Without Euclid,...
656
00:51:03,023 --> 00:51:06,023
...the Messerschmitt could never
have taken to the sky...
657
00:51:06,103 --> 00:51:08,263
...and dart
from cloud to cloud...
658
00:51:08,343 --> 00:51:11,103
...and bomb the be jesus
out of the English,...
659
00:51:11,183 --> 00:51:14,423
...who deserve it after what they
did to the Irish for 800 years.
660
00:51:14,503 --> 00:51:18,183
Euclid is grace
and beauty...
661
00:51:18,263 --> 00:51:20,143
...and elegance.
662
00:51:20,183 --> 00:51:23,223
- Do you understand that, boys ?
- We do, sir.
663
00:51:23,303 --> 00:51:26,543
- We do, sir.
- I doubt it.
664
00:51:26,623 --> 00:51:30,703
To love Euclid is to be alone
in this world.
665
00:51:30,783 --> 00:51:34,102
You. Clohessy.
666
00:51:34,182 --> 00:51:36,862
Who stood at the foot of the cross
when our Lord was crucified ?
667
00:51:38,142 --> 00:51:40,342
The Twelve Apostles, sir ?
668
00:51:40,422 --> 00:51:43,502
Clohessy, what is
the Irish word for fool ?
669
00:51:43,582 --> 00:51:45,262
Omadhaun, sir.
670
00:51:45,342 --> 00:51:49,142
Sir. I know who stood
at the foot of the cross, sir.
671
00:51:49,222 --> 00:51:51,062
It was
the three Marys, sir.
672
00:51:51,142 --> 00:51:53,862
That's Fintan Slattery.
673
00:51:53,942 --> 00:51:56,622
He's going to be a saint
when he gets older.
674
00:51:56,702 --> 00:51:59,182
Everyone know she wears
his sister's blouse at night...
675
00:51:59,262 --> 00:52:01,262
...and curls his hair
with hot iron tongs...
676
00:52:01,342 --> 00:52:04,502
...so that he'll look gorgeous
at Mass on Sundays.
677
00:52:04,582 --> 00:52:06,662
It's no wonder
we played truant.
678
00:52:06,742 --> 00:52:08,462
Chickens !
679
00:52:08,542 --> 00:52:10,542
Of all the girls I've known
and I've known some
680
00:52:10,622 --> 00:52:13,222
Untill first met you
I was lonesome
681
00:52:13,302 --> 00:52:16,342
And when you came in sight
my heart grew light
682
00:52:16,422 --> 00:52:19,302
And this old world
seemed new to me
683
00:52:19,382 --> 00:52:21,622
You're really swell
I have to admit you
684
00:52:21,702 --> 00:52:23,782
Deserve expressions
that really fit you
685
00:52:23,862 --> 00:52:26,542
Hurry up, Frankie.
I can't hold them.
686
00:52:26,582 --> 00:52:30,702
I've racked my brain hoping to explain
all the things that you do to me
687
00:52:30,742 --> 00:52:36,902
Bei mir bist du schon
please let me explain
688
00:52:36,982 --> 00:52:39,142
Frankie, there's
nothing in the world...
689
00:52:39,222 --> 00:52:41,902
...like a good feed of apples
and a drink of water...
690
00:52:41,982 --> 00:52:46,022
...and a good shit and plenty of grass
to wipe your arse with.
691
00:52:47,942 --> 00:52:50,382
Paddy, quick, wipe your arse.
It's milking time !
692
00:52:50,462 --> 00:52:53,022
Will you wait for me ?
Frankie, wait.
693
00:52:54,902 --> 00:52:57,422
Frankie, you're doing it wrong.
You've got to pull it down.
694
00:52:57,502 --> 00:53:00,022
- You have to squeeze down.
- Shut up !
695
00:53:00,102 --> 00:53:02,582
- Shut up !
- Frankie, don't !
696
00:53:02,662 --> 00:53:06,222
- Hey, clear off, you little bastards !
- Run, Paddy, run !
697
00:53:06,302 --> 00:53:09,422
I'll give you such a kick in the hole,
you won't know what hit you.
698
00:53:09,502 --> 00:53:12,062
Here, piggy.
699
00:53:12,142 --> 00:53:14,902
Mikey Molloy persuaded
us to go to Peter Dooley's house.
700
00:53:14,982 --> 00:53:17,742
Peter Dooley has a hump like
the one Charles Laughton had...
701
00:53:17,822 --> 00:53:20,142
...in The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
702
00:53:20,182 --> 00:53:21,622
That's why they call him
Quasimodo.
703
00:53:21,662 --> 00:53:26,382
Oh, and he has these four sisters
with the enormous breasts.
704
00:53:28,342 --> 00:53:30,462
Okay, it's a shilling
for the three of you.
705
00:53:30,542 --> 00:53:33,582
Climb up the spout, and each of youse
have a look, but no wankin'.
706
00:53:33,622 --> 00:53:36,142
I've my own sisters. Why should I pay
to see your naked sisters ?
707
00:53:36,222 --> 00:53:39,902
'Cause looking at your own naked sisters
is the worst sin of all.
708
00:53:39,982 --> 00:53:43,182
Not even a bishop in the world could
forgive you for it.
709
00:53:43,262 --> 00:53:45,142
What can you see ?
710
00:53:45,182 --> 00:53:47,782
- Oh, it's grand.
- Can you see their tits ?
711
00:53:50,102 --> 00:53:53,102
I said no wankin'.
There's to be no wankin' up the spout.
712
00:53:53,142 --> 00:53:55,662
- Oh, it's grand.
- I said no wankin' up the spout !
713
00:54:01,342 --> 00:54:04,462
- You perverted bunch of filth !
- Let go !
714
00:54:04,502 --> 00:54:07,982
My daughters can't even wash
themselves on a Friday night !
715
00:54:08,022 --> 00:54:11,142
Poor Quasimodo. He was right.
716
00:54:11,222 --> 00:54:14,822
Gawking at your own naked sisters
is the worst sin of all.
717
00:54:14,902 --> 00:54:17,182
Except when you charge
a shilling for the pleasure.
718
00:54:17,262 --> 00:54:19,222
That's worse still.
719
00:54:19,382 --> 00:54:23,102
Introibo adaltare Dei.
And then you say ?
720
00:54:23,182 --> 00:54:26,382
Ad Deum quila etificat
juventutem meam.
721
00:54:26,422 --> 00:54:30,262
Right. Introibo adaltare Dei,
and then you say ?
722
00:54:30,342 --> 00:54:33,582
Ad Deum quila etificat
juventutem meam.
723
00:54:33,622 --> 00:54:35,502
Very good. Again.
Introibo ad...
724
00:54:36,982 --> 00:54:39,182
Ad Deum quila etificat
juventutem mean.
725
00:54:39,222 --> 00:54:43,542
Hello. How are you ?
This is my son, Francis.
726
00:54:43,622 --> 00:54:47,822
He can recite the Latin,
and he's ready to be an altarboy.
727
00:54:47,862 --> 00:54:50,302
- Ad Deum...
- I'm sorry. We have no room.
728
00:55:00,902 --> 00:55:02,782
Never mind, son.
729
00:55:06,382 --> 00:55:09,582
Sacred Stan
said there was no room for him.
730
00:55:20,862 --> 00:55:24,022
I'll tell you
what it is.
731
00:55:24,102 --> 00:55:26,862
'Tis class distinction.
732
00:55:28,902 --> 00:55:31,862
They don't want the boys
from the lanes at the altar.
733
00:55:31,942 --> 00:55:34,102
They don't want the ones
with the scabby knees...
734
00:55:34,182 --> 00:55:36,822
...and their arses hanging
out of their trousers.
735
00:55:38,822 --> 00:55:41,222
They want the boys with the nice shoes
and the clean hair...
736
00:55:41,262 --> 00:55:43,782
...and the fathers
with the steady jobs.
737
00:55:43,862 --> 00:55:45,782
Not useless like you.
738
00:55:48,262 --> 00:55:51,662
That's what it is.
739
00:55:51,742 --> 00:55:54,822
And it's hard to hang on
to your faith.
740
00:56:15,262 --> 00:56:18,782
You buy pints for people you don't know
who tell you you're a grand man,...
741
00:56:18,862 --> 00:56:22,062
...while your children are at home with
their bellies stuck to their backbones.
742
00:56:24,662 --> 00:56:27,462
Aye, you're right.
743
00:56:27,502 --> 00:56:29,622
I'll get a job.
I promise.
744
00:56:29,702 --> 00:56:31,742
If you get a job,
you lose it the third week...
745
00:56:31,782 --> 00:56:33,662
...because you drink
all the wages...
746
00:56:33,702 --> 00:56:36,862
...and you miss the work.
747
00:56:36,902 --> 00:56:39,302
We'll get by, Angela.
748
00:56:39,342 --> 00:56:41,262
I'll change.
749
00:56:43,822 --> 00:56:46,342
The dole is 19 shillings
and the rent is 6.
750
00:56:46,422 --> 00:56:50,782
And that leaves 13 shillings
to feed and clothe 5 people.
751
00:56:53,142 --> 00:56:55,622
God is good, you know.
752
00:56:58,342 --> 00:57:00,382
God might be good
for someone somewhere,...
753
00:57:00,462 --> 00:57:02,742
...but he hasn't been seen lately
in the lanes of Limerick.
754
00:57:04,702 --> 00:57:06,542
Oh, Angela.
755
00:57:09,022 --> 00:57:11,422
You could go to hell
for saying that.
756
00:57:15,662 --> 00:57:17,942
Aren't I there already,
Malachy ?
757
00:57:24,302 --> 00:57:26,462
Come here.
Come here.
758
00:57:42,102 --> 00:57:46,462
And then the angels
left another baby on the stairs again.
759
00:57:48,462 --> 00:57:50,342
What are you going
to call him, Angela ?
760
00:57:50,422 --> 00:57:52,702
I like the name
Kevin or Sean.
761
00:57:52,742 --> 00:57:55,942
If you called out the door,
"Kevin, Sean, come in for your tea",...
762
00:57:55,982 --> 00:57:59,102
...you'd have half of Limerick
running at you.
763
00:57:59,182 --> 00:58:02,302
- I like the name Alphonsus.
- Alphonsus ?
764
00:58:02,342 --> 00:58:04,382
That's a stupid name.
765
00:58:04,422 --> 00:58:06,302
Ah, Jesus Christ !
766
00:58:06,342 --> 00:58:10,702
- Don't curse !
- Will you leave the poor child alone ?
767
00:58:10,782 --> 00:58:13,422
I wondered how many more babies...
768
00:58:13,502 --> 00:58:15,342
...the angels would leave
on the stairs.
769
00:58:15,422 --> 00:58:17,502
Someone else
to share my dinner with.
770
00:58:17,582 --> 00:58:19,462
Ow. What did you
do that for ?
771
00:58:19,502 --> 00:58:21,702
Don't laugh.
Now you know what it feels like.
772
00:58:23,062 --> 00:58:25,542
At least my grandpa in the North...
773
00:58:25,622 --> 00:58:28,382
...sent us five pounds
for the baby Alphie.
774
00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:32,222
All right. You go home and tell your
mother I'll be back in a few minutes.
775
00:58:32,262 --> 00:58:34,142
You're not to go
to the pub, Da.
776
00:58:34,182 --> 00:58:36,062
Mom said you're
to bring home the money.
777
00:58:36,102 --> 00:58:39,422
- You're not to drink the pint.
- Now listen.
778
00:58:39,502 --> 00:58:42,222
- You go home to your mother now.
- Da.
779
00:58:42,302 --> 00:58:44,742
Give us the money.
That money is for the new baby.
780
00:58:44,822 --> 00:58:46,702
Da !
781
00:58:46,782 --> 00:58:48,622
Please, Da.
782
00:58:52,622 --> 00:58:54,502
Go home !
783
00:59:05,782 --> 00:59:07,942
Will you come in here,
Frankie ?
784
00:59:11,302 --> 00:59:13,182
I want you to go down
to South's Pub,...
785
00:59:13,262 --> 00:59:15,702
...and I want you to stand
in the middle of the pub...
786
00:59:15,782 --> 00:59:20,422
...and tell every man that your father
is drinking the money for the baby.
787
00:59:20,502 --> 00:59:22,742
You're to tell the world there's not
a scrap of food in the house.
788
00:59:22,822 --> 00:59:25,182
There's not a lump of coal
for the fire.
789
00:59:25,262 --> 00:59:28,782
There's not even a drop of milk
for the baby's bottle.
790
00:59:33,982 --> 00:59:35,902
Oh, come on.
791
00:59:50,542 --> 00:59:56,102
And I pray that the world
would in peace let me be
792
00:59:56,182 --> 00:59:59,622
And the green glens
of Antrim
793
00:59:59,702 --> 01:00:03,342
Are welcoming me
794
01:00:03,382 --> 01:00:06,102
And if you only knew
795
01:00:06,182 --> 01:00:08,222
How the light of the moon
796
01:00:08,302 --> 01:00:11,902
My heart is banging
away, and all I can think of doing...
797
01:00:11,982 --> 01:00:14,822
...is giving him a good kick
in the leg and running away.
798
01:00:14,902 --> 01:00:17,702
- But I don't.
- You'd imagine a picture.
799
01:00:17,782 --> 01:00:20,942
Because I remember all the nice times
he sat me by the fire...
800
01:00:20,982 --> 01:00:25,222
...and told me his stories of Cuchulain,
Roosevelt and De Valera.
801
01:00:28,542 --> 01:00:32,382
Later, he'll be home singing and
offering us a penny to die for Ireland.
802
01:00:32,462 --> 01:00:34,942
It'll be different now.
803
01:00:35,022 --> 01:00:37,862
Because it's bad enough
to drink the dole or the wages,...
804
01:00:37,942 --> 01:00:42,262
...but a man who drinks the money for
a new baby has gone beyond the beyonds.
805
01:00:57,942 --> 01:00:59,782
Mam.
806
01:01:01,942 --> 01:01:04,502
I couldn't find him.
807
01:01:04,582 --> 01:01:07,102
Go to bed, Frankie.
808
01:01:17,502 --> 01:01:20,862
With Confirmation,...
809
01:01:20,942 --> 01:01:23,582
...you will become
true soldiers of the Church.
810
01:01:23,662 --> 01:01:28,222
That entitles you
to die a martyr...
811
01:01:28,302 --> 01:01:31,022
...in the event we're invaded
by Protestants...
812
01:01:31,102 --> 01:01:35,262
...or Mohammedans
or any other class of heathen.
813
01:01:35,342 --> 01:01:37,182
You will have the gifts...
814
01:01:37,262 --> 01:01:40,022
...of the Holy Ghost.
Wisdom...
815
01:01:40,102 --> 01:01:43,702
...understanding,
counsel.
816
01:01:43,782 --> 01:01:45,982
What is the Third Station
of the Cross, my child ?
817
01:01:46,062 --> 01:01:47,982
When Jesus falls
for the first time.
818
01:01:53,382 --> 01:01:55,222
What is the Fourth Commandment,
my child ?
819
01:01:55,302 --> 01:01:58,062
Honor thy father
and thy mother.
820
01:02:01,262 --> 01:02:04,422
Are you allright, Frankie ?
821
01:02:27,702 --> 01:02:30,742
Father Gorey
is touching me with oil and praying,...
822
01:02:30,822 --> 01:02:32,942
...and that means
I'm going to die.
823
01:02:34,742 --> 01:02:36,582
But I don't care.
824
01:02:42,742 --> 01:02:46,102
And then Dr. Campbell
came in and held my hand.
825
01:02:46,182 --> 01:02:48,942
It was then that I knew
I was going to get better.
826
01:02:52,182 --> 01:02:54,662
Because a doctor
would never fart...
827
01:02:54,742 --> 01:02:57,542
...in the presence
of a dying boy.
828
01:03:05,782 --> 01:03:08,742
They gave me a whole new body
full of blood.
829
01:03:08,822 --> 01:03:12,622
Sister Rita said it came from
a soldier at Sarsfield Barracks.
830
01:03:26,982 --> 01:03:30,062
Oh, son.
831
01:03:30,102 --> 01:03:32,462
You're a grand old soldier.
832
01:03:32,502 --> 01:03:35,382
What's wrong with me ?
833
01:03:37,062 --> 01:03:39,262
You've had the typhoid.
834
01:03:44,182 --> 01:03:46,742
Don't go.
835
01:03:46,822 --> 01:03:51,022
Hey, you're
a big boy now.
836
01:03:51,102 --> 01:03:55,022
And don't forget you got
soldier's blood in you.
837
01:03:57,582 --> 01:03:59,422
You're over
the worst of it.
838
01:03:59,502 --> 01:04:03,302
Soon be home
to Sorrento.
839
01:04:16,822 --> 01:04:19,982
That was the first
time my dad ever kissed me.
840
01:04:20,062 --> 01:04:24,102
I felt so happy I could have floated
out of the bed.
841
01:04:38,342 --> 01:04:41,742
Everyday, I couldn't wait
for the doctors and nurses...
842
01:04:41,782 --> 01:04:43,902
...to leave me alone so that
I could read my books.
843
01:04:43,982 --> 01:04:45,862
I loved having
a lavatory of my own...
844
01:04:45,942 --> 01:04:48,782
...where I could read
for hours and hours.
845
01:04:48,822 --> 01:04:52,662
"To die, to sleep.
To sleep, perchance to dream.
846
01:04:52,742 --> 01:04:54,662
Aye, there's the rub."
847
01:04:54,742 --> 01:04:56,622
Frankie, are you dead ?
848
01:04:56,662 --> 01:04:58,982
Isn't it grand, Seamus ?
It's Shakespeare.
849
01:04:59,062 --> 01:05:00,982
I loved the Shakespeare.
850
01:05:01,062 --> 01:05:04,022
It was like having jewels in your mouth
when you said the words.
851
01:05:04,102 --> 01:05:07,182
"I do believe, induced
by potent circumstances,...
852
01:05:07,222 --> 01:05:09,102
...that thou art mine enemy."
853
01:05:09,142 --> 01:05:12,382
"I do believe, induced
by potent circumstances,...
854
01:05:12,462 --> 01:05:14,702
...that thou art mine enemy."
855
01:05:14,742 --> 01:05:18,182
"I do believe, induced
by potent circumstances,...
856
01:05:18,262 --> 01:05:20,662
...that thou art mine enemy."
857
01:05:20,742 --> 01:05:22,982
- Bye ! Bye !
- There's Frankie.
858
01:05:23,062 --> 01:05:25,902
But I missed me mom
and dad and Malachy...
859
01:05:25,942 --> 01:05:28,742
...and little Michael
and the baby Alphie... God knows why.
860
01:05:28,822 --> 01:05:31,502
- Frankie, will you hurry up now ?
- Bye.
861
01:05:31,542 --> 01:05:34,942
It was a happy day
when I finally went home.
862
01:05:38,542 --> 01:05:41,502
- Hello, Frankie.
- Welcome home, Frankie.
863
01:05:41,582 --> 01:05:43,422
You're a grand soldier,
Frankie.
864
01:05:43,502 --> 01:05:45,902
A credit to your
mother and father.
865
01:05:45,982 --> 01:05:47,862
Welcome home, Frankie.
866
01:05:49,422 --> 01:05:52,662
Hello, Frankie.
867
01:05:52,742 --> 01:05:56,822
It's grand
to have you home, soldier.
868
01:05:56,902 --> 01:05:59,102
Thank you, Mrs Purcell.
869
01:05:59,182 --> 01:06:01,062
Goodman, Frankie.
870
01:06:06,342 --> 01:06:08,742
Ah, Francis, my boy.
871
01:06:08,822 --> 01:06:11,542
But the moment
I saw me dad with Alphie on his lap...
872
01:06:11,622 --> 01:06:13,542
...was an empty feeling
in my heart,...
873
01:06:13,622 --> 01:06:15,942
...because I know
he's out of work again.
874
01:06:16,022 --> 01:06:18,382
- Welcome home, son.
- Da.
875
01:06:20,622 --> 01:06:22,462
It's good to see you.
876
01:06:22,542 --> 01:06:24,862
You too.
877
01:06:24,942 --> 01:06:26,942
Get a wee sit, right ?
878
01:06:27,022 --> 01:06:30,142
St. Wilgefortis' mom
had nine children.
879
01:06:30,222 --> 01:06:34,022
But still, I loved
having my dad to myself in the morning.
880
01:06:34,062 --> 01:06:37,502
I loved his stories where motorcars
and planes went under water.
881
01:06:37,542 --> 01:06:40,062
Submarines
flew up in the air,...
882
01:06:40,142 --> 01:06:42,862
...and polar bears wrestled
with elephants on the moon.
883
01:06:42,942 --> 01:06:46,142
He was the Holy Trinity, wasmy dad,
with three people in him.
884
01:06:46,182 --> 01:06:50,342
The one in the morning with his tea
and Woodbines telling us the stories.
885
01:06:50,382 --> 01:06:54,182
The one who tried so hard
to find work but never did.
886
01:07:00,982 --> 01:07:05,302
And the one who came home at night
with the smell of whiskey on him.
887
01:07:23,622 --> 01:07:25,982
But he was reading all the time
he was at the hospital.
888
01:07:26,062 --> 01:07:29,502
I'm sorry, Mrs McCourt.
He's missed over two months of school.
889
01:07:29,542 --> 01:07:33,822
He'll have to go back to the fifth
class. I'm really very sorry.
890
01:07:55,222 --> 01:07:59,062
Mom, I don't want to go back
to fifth class.
891
01:07:59,142 --> 01:08:01,862
Malachy's in fifth class,
and I'm a year older than him.
892
01:08:01,942 --> 01:08:03,822
Oh, come on, Frankie.
893
01:08:03,902 --> 01:08:06,742
But all me friends will laugh at me
because I've been put back.
894
01:08:06,822 --> 01:08:08,662
No.
895
01:08:15,302 --> 01:08:17,582
What I needed was a miracle,...
896
01:08:17,662 --> 01:08:22,182
...and it happened right there outside
the Our Lady Of Liberty Pub.
897
01:08:22,222 --> 01:08:24,782
I looked up at her.
She smiled.
898
01:08:24,862 --> 01:08:26,782
And when I looked down,
there was a penny.
899
01:08:42,662 --> 01:08:44,782
I spent the penny
on a candle...
900
01:08:44,862 --> 01:08:49,502
...and prayed to St. Francis for him to
get me out of my little brother's class.
901
01:08:49,542 --> 01:08:51,782
Our Father who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name...
902
01:08:51,987 --> 01:08:56,187
Take that sour look off your puss,
Francis McCourt,...
903
01:08:56,267 --> 01:08:58,308
...or you will feel
the end of my stick.
904
01:08:58,348 --> 01:09:00,548
Francis McCourt
is going to show you...
905
01:09:00,588 --> 01:09:04,748
...how well he learned
to write in this class last year.
906
01:09:04,828 --> 01:09:07,909
He's going to write a composition
on our Lord.
907
01:09:07,949 --> 01:09:10,349
Aren't you, McCourt ?
908
01:09:10,389 --> 01:09:15,030
He's to tell us what it would be like
if our Lord had grown up in Limerick,...
909
01:09:15,110 --> 01:09:16,990
...the holiest city in Ireland.
910
01:09:17,070 --> 01:09:21,030
Wilgefortis' dad wanted to marry her
off to the King of Sicily,...
911
01:09:21,070 --> 01:09:23,271
...but the beautiful,
young Wilgefortis...
912
01:09:23,311 --> 01:09:26,111
...was desperate not to marry
the scabby old man.
913
01:09:26,191 --> 01:09:28,031
Oh.
914
01:09:28,111 --> 01:09:30,311
And McCourt scores
a brilliant goal.
915
01:09:35,592 --> 01:09:39,712
They said that Limerick
was the holiest city,...
916
01:09:39,792 --> 01:09:42,833
...but everyone knew the reason why there
were always people in the churches.
917
01:09:42,913 --> 01:09:45,113
It was because
it was always raining,...
918
01:09:45,193 --> 01:09:47,113
...and they were in there
to get out of the wet.
919
01:09:47,153 --> 01:09:49,114
The name of my composition is...
920
01:09:49,194 --> 01:09:52,914
Title, McCourt.
The title.
921
01:09:52,954 --> 01:09:56,114
The title of my composition
is "Jesus and the Weather."
922
01:09:56,194 --> 01:09:58,475
What ?
923
01:09:58,515 --> 01:10:00,915
"Jesus and the Weather", sir.
924
01:10:00,955 --> 01:10:03,315
All right, read it.
925
01:10:03,355 --> 01:10:05,435
"I don't think Jesus,
who is our Lord,...
926
01:10:05,515 --> 01:10:07,596
...would have liked
the weather in Limerick,...
927
01:10:07,676 --> 01:10:11,796
...because it's always raining and
the Shannon keeps the whole city damp.
928
01:10:11,836 --> 01:10:14,637
My father says the Shannon
is a killer river...
929
01:10:14,677 --> 01:10:16,557
...because it killed
my two brothers.
930
01:10:16,597 --> 01:10:18,477
When you look at pictures
of Jesus,...
931
01:10:18,517 --> 01:10:22,437
...He's always wandering around
ancient Israel in a sheet.
932
01:10:22,517 --> 01:10:25,718
It never rains there, and you never hear
of anyone coughing...
933
01:10:25,758 --> 01:10:28,478
...or getting the consumption
or anything like that.
934
01:10:28,558 --> 01:10:32,079
And no one has a job there,
because all they do is stand around,...
935
01:10:32,119 --> 01:10:36,839
...eat manna, shake their fists,
and go to crucifixions.
936
01:10:36,919 --> 01:10:40,479
Any time Jesus got hungry, all He had
to do was to walk up the road...
937
01:10:40,559 --> 01:10:43,640
...to a fig tree oran... orange tree
and have His fill.
938
01:10:43,680 --> 01:10:46,560
Or if He wanted a pint, He could
wave Hish and over a big glass...
939
01:10:46,640 --> 01:10:48,480
...and there was the pint.
940
01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,921
Or He could visit Mary Magdalene
and her sister Martha,...
941
01:10:51,961 --> 01:10:54,601
...and they'd give Him His dinner,
no questions asked.
942
01:10:54,681 --> 01:10:58,802
So it's a good thing Jesus decided to
be born Jewish in that nice warm place.
943
01:10:58,842 --> 01:11:01,562
Because if He was born in Limerick,
He'd catch the consumption...
944
01:11:01,602 --> 01:11:04,882
...and be dead in a month, and there
wouldn't be any Catholic Church,...
945
01:11:04,922 --> 01:11:07,083
...and we wouldn't have to write
compositions about Him.
946
01:11:07,163 --> 01:11:09,003
The end."
947
01:11:11,363 --> 01:11:13,563
Did you write this composition,
McCourt ?
948
01:11:13,603 --> 01:11:16,324
I did, sir.
949
01:11:18,084 --> 01:11:19,964
The miracle worked.
950
01:11:20,004 --> 01:11:22,364
I was back
in my old class.
951
01:11:22,404 --> 01:11:24,285
Stock your mind.
952
01:11:24,325 --> 01:11:26,205
It's your house
of treasure,...
953
01:11:26,245 --> 01:11:29,405
...and no one in the world
can interfere with it.
954
01:11:29,445 --> 01:11:34,166
Fill your mind with rubbish,
and it'll rot your head.
955
01:11:34,206 --> 01:11:37,846
You might be poor,
your shoes might be broken,...
956
01:11:37,886 --> 01:11:39,766
...but your mind...
957
01:11:39,806 --> 01:11:44,087
your mind is a palace.
958
01:11:44,247 --> 01:11:47,607
And McCourt gets the ball,
he goes round one man...
959
01:11:47,687 --> 01:11:49,487
...he goes up to the second man...
960
01:11:49,567 --> 01:11:51,608
Peggy ! Sean !
961
01:11:51,688 --> 01:11:54,448
Kathleen,
come in for your tea.
962
01:11:54,528 --> 01:11:56,368
Come in for
the lovely leg of lamb...
963
01:11:56,448 --> 01:12:00,449
...and the gorgeous green peas,
and the floury white potatoes.
964
01:12:00,489 --> 01:12:03,129
Oh, shut up,
will you, woman ?
965
01:12:03,169 --> 01:12:05,289
It's a low-class mind
to torment your neighbors...
966
01:12:05,369 --> 01:12:07,209
...when there's nothing
but bread and tea we have.
967
01:12:07,289 --> 01:12:09,450
Get off to work in England
like the rest of our husbands.
968
01:12:09,530 --> 01:12:11,370
Go and help England
win a war ?
969
01:12:11,450 --> 01:12:13,330
I wouldn't give the English
the steam off my pish.
970
01:12:13,410 --> 01:12:15,410
No, you'd rather
drink the dole...
971
01:12:15,490 --> 01:12:17,731
...and watch your sons
run around all skin and bone...
972
01:12:17,811 --> 01:12:19,971
...with their arse hanging out
of their trousers.
973
01:12:20,051 --> 01:12:22,291
Kathleen,
come in for your tea.
974
01:12:22,371 --> 01:12:24,371
If I could work,
I'd be in the English factories.
975
01:12:24,451 --> 01:12:26,892
A factory's no place
for a woman.
976
01:12:26,972 --> 01:12:29,852
Sitting on your arse
is no place for a man.
977
01:12:31,012 --> 01:12:34,053
And the game restarts
in the second half.
978
01:12:34,093 --> 01:12:36,213
He's got the ball.
He's going on the run.
979
01:12:36,293 --> 01:12:38,133
Oh, you got
the ball off him.
980
01:12:47,534 --> 01:12:50,214
Get off me, will you ?
981
01:12:50,254 --> 01:12:54,495
I'm worn out.
982
01:12:54,535 --> 01:12:57,215
That's the end of it for me.
No more children.
983
01:12:59,295 --> 01:13:01,736
A good Catholic woman should perform
her wifely duties.
984
01:13:01,816 --> 01:13:03,656
Oh, feck off, will you ?
985
01:13:08,256 --> 01:13:11,577
You'll face
eternal damnation, Angela.
986
01:13:11,657 --> 01:13:13,497
Well, as long as there
are no more children,...
987
01:13:13,577 --> 01:13:16,857
...eternal damnation sounds just fine
to me, Malachy.
988
01:13:39,740 --> 01:13:42,060
Come on, lads, come on.
You'll miss the train.
989
01:13:42,140 --> 01:13:43,981
You'll miss a good job.
Come on.
990
01:13:44,061 --> 01:13:46,781
We've got the Guinness, and we've
got the Jameson in England, all right ?
991
01:14:01,583 --> 01:14:04,223
Right. Uh...
992
01:14:04,303 --> 01:14:06,183
Remember your religious duties.
993
01:14:08,303 --> 01:14:11,344
And above all, you obey
your mother, right ?
994
01:14:13,224 --> 01:14:16,824
You're the man
of the house now, Francis.
995
01:14:18,865 --> 01:14:21,065
Mind yourself.
996
01:14:32,146 --> 01:14:34,266
Come on. Let's go.
997
01:14:48,788 --> 01:14:51,908
Mam said all
we had to do was wait two weeks...
998
01:14:51,988 --> 01:14:53,829
...for the telegram
with the money order.
999
01:14:53,909 --> 01:14:56,629
Soon we'd have enough money
for new boots and coats,...
1000
01:14:56,709 --> 01:14:58,829
...ham, cabbage
and potatoes for dinner,...
1001
01:14:58,869 --> 01:15:02,190
...electric light and maybe even a
lavatory like they have in America.
1002
01:15:02,230 --> 01:15:04,110
Now that Dad
is gone to England,...
1003
01:15:04,150 --> 01:15:06,510
...sure I your troubles
would be over.
1004
01:15:06,590 --> 01:15:08,430
Surely.
1005
01:15:20,952 --> 01:15:23,912
- Hello. Thank you very much.
- Hi.
1006
01:15:23,992 --> 01:15:26,672
- Thank you.
- There he is !
1007
01:15:28,793 --> 01:15:31,993
Hey, wait !
Has ours come ? McCourt ?
1008
01:15:32,073 --> 01:15:34,673
- No.
- Are you sure ? It's our first telegram.
1009
01:15:34,753 --> 01:15:37,954
It should be for about three pounds
or maybe more.
1010
01:15:38,034 --> 01:15:40,234
- Sorry.
- Can you look in your pouch again ?
1011
01:15:40,314 --> 01:15:43,034
I feckin' did already.
I've nothing for you.
1012
01:16:16,558 --> 01:16:19,919
- Who's a good boy ?
- Alphie !
1013
01:16:21,919 --> 01:16:25,799
Begging for leftovers
is worse than the dole.
1014
01:16:25,879 --> 01:16:30,000
Worse than the St. Vincent
de Paul Charity. My own mother begging.
1015
01:16:30,080 --> 01:16:32,880
This is the worst kind
of shame...
1016
01:16:32,960 --> 01:16:35,160
...begging for the leftovers
from the priests' dinner.
1017
01:16:35,200 --> 01:16:38,961
Like tinkers holding up
their scabby children on street corners.
1018
01:16:39,041 --> 01:16:42,521
Worse than borrowing
from the money lender, Mrs Finucane.
1019
01:17:00,243 --> 01:17:02,163
There was
only one thing for it.
1020
01:17:02,243 --> 01:17:04,884
I had to get a job.
1021
01:17:10,204 --> 01:17:12,805
This is the best morning
of all, Frankie,
1022
01:17:12,885 --> 01:17:15,165
Saturday half day.
1023
01:17:15,205 --> 01:17:19,005
We start at 8:00 and finish
by the time the Angelus rings at 12:00.
1024
01:17:37,887 --> 01:17:40,488
The dipsy doodle
is the thing to beware
1025
01:17:40,568 --> 01:17:43,408
The dipsy doodle
is gonna get in your hair
1026
01:17:43,488 --> 01:17:45,528
And if it gets you
it couldn't be worse
1027
01:17:45,608 --> 01:17:48,409
The things you say will
all come out in reverse
1028
01:17:48,489 --> 01:17:50,889
Don't go up the mine,
Manny
1029
01:17:50,969 --> 01:17:54,129
That's the way
the dipsy doodle works
1030
01:17:54,209 --> 01:17:56,290
The dipsy doodle
is so easy to find
1031
01:17:56,330 --> 01:17:59,370
It's almost always
at the back of your mind
1032
01:17:59,450 --> 01:18:02,330
You never know it's there
until it's too late
1033
01:18:02,410 --> 01:18:04,531
And then you get
in such a terrible state
1034
01:18:04,611 --> 01:18:07,091
The moon jumped
over the cow, hey diddle
1035
01:18:07,171 --> 01:18:09,331
That's the way
the dipsy doodle works
1036
01:18:31,294 --> 01:18:35,534
The man who delivered 16 hundred weight
of coal deserves a pint.
1037
01:18:35,614 --> 01:18:37,814
And the boy who helped him
deserves a lemonade.
1038
01:18:39,335 --> 01:18:42,735
Your eyes look atrocious...
like two piss-holes in the snow.
1039
01:18:42,815 --> 01:18:47,455
- It's the coal dust, Uncle Pa.
- You're a great man, Frank.
1040
01:18:47,535 --> 01:18:50,016
You can help me
every Thursday after school.
1041
01:18:50,096 --> 01:18:52,096
There's a shilling foryou.
1042
01:18:52,176 --> 01:18:54,216
More power to your elbow,
Frankie.
1043
01:18:54,256 --> 01:18:57,177
He'll be taking yourjob yet,
you know,John.
1044
01:19:01,297 --> 01:19:04,377
He called me Frank, not Frankie.
1045
01:19:04,457 --> 01:19:06,818
For the first time,
I feel like a man.
1046
01:19:06,898 --> 01:19:08,778
A man with a shilling
in his pocket.
1047
01:19:08,818 --> 01:19:10,978
A man who had a drink
in a pub.
1048
01:19:18,179 --> 01:19:22,580
Ma, I earned a shilling.
1049
01:19:22,660 --> 01:19:25,980
Take tuppence, Frankie,
and take Malachy to the Lyric.
1050
01:19:26,060 --> 01:19:29,260
You're a treasure, Frankie.
You deserve it.
1051
01:19:29,340 --> 01:19:32,181
God above,
look at those eyes.
1052
01:19:52,823 --> 01:19:54,383
Frankie !
1053
01:19:56,983 --> 01:19:58,864
Frankie !
1054
01:20:01,424 --> 01:20:04,464
A shilling from Mr Hannon,
and four shillings in tips.
1055
01:20:06,505 --> 01:20:09,305
Will you go to that mirror
and look at your eyes ?
1056
01:20:15,026 --> 01:20:17,266
Oh, jeez.
1057
01:20:17,306 --> 01:20:19,306
That's the end of it.
No more Mr Hannon.
1058
01:20:19,386 --> 01:20:21,226
Mr Hannon needs me.
1059
01:20:21,306 --> 01:20:23,587
I'm sorry
for Mr Hannon's troubles,
1060
01:20:23,667 --> 01:20:26,107
but we have troubles
of our own.
1061
01:20:26,187 --> 01:20:29,027
And the last thing I need
is a blind son.
1062
01:20:29,107 --> 01:20:31,667
Now, wash your eyes,
and you can go to the Lyric.
1063
01:20:38,188 --> 01:20:40,909
Malachy, what's happening ?
1064
01:20:40,989 --> 01:20:44,589
The man in the hat is sticking a gold
dagger into the nice lady's belly.
1065
01:20:44,669 --> 01:20:47,549
- Is there blood all over ?
- No. She's showing a magic ring.
1066
01:20:47,629 --> 01:20:49,750
I can't see a thing.
1067
01:20:56,350 --> 01:20:58,551
The doctor said...
1068
01:20:58,631 --> 01:21:00,471
...this was the worst case of
conjunctivit is he'd ever seen.
1069
01:21:00,511 --> 01:21:02,711
How long will he be in, Doctor ?
1070
01:21:02,751 --> 01:21:04,631
Only God knows that,
woman.
1071
01:21:04,671 --> 01:21:06,551
I should have seen
this child months ago.
1072
01:21:06,591 --> 01:21:08,352
My working days were over.
1073
01:21:08,432 --> 01:21:12,912
Eyes wide open.
Wider. Wide as you can.
1074
01:21:12,992 --> 01:21:16,633
- Ow, Ma !
- If only dad was here.
1075
01:22:12,799 --> 01:22:16,119
He's not coming, Mam.
1076
01:22:16,159 --> 01:22:18,040
He might be asleep
in one of the carriages.
1077
01:22:18,080 --> 01:22:21,080
Come on, Mam. Let's go home.
He's not coming.
1078
01:22:26,641 --> 01:22:30,281
He definitely said in his letter
two days before Christmas.
1079
01:22:30,361 --> 01:22:32,201
Maybe the boat
from Holyhead was late.
1080
01:22:32,281 --> 01:22:34,122
That could make you
miss your train.
1081
01:22:34,202 --> 01:22:36,042
The Irish Sea's desperate
this time of year.
1082
01:22:36,122 --> 01:22:38,922
He doesn't care about us.
He's over there drunk in England.
1083
01:22:39,002 --> 01:22:40,842
Don't talk about
your father like that.
1084
01:22:43,443 --> 01:22:46,403
- Boots !
- Me ! Me !
1085
01:22:46,483 --> 01:22:48,643
Next.
1086
01:22:48,723 --> 01:22:50,803
And where's the husband ?
1087
01:22:50,883 --> 01:22:52,764
He's in England, sir.
1088
01:22:52,804 --> 01:22:54,684
England, is it ?
1089
01:22:54,724 --> 01:22:57,524
And where's the weekly telegram ?
The big five pounds ?
1090
01:22:57,564 --> 01:22:59,764
He didn't send us a penny
in months, sir.
1091
01:22:59,844 --> 01:23:03,005
Well, we all probably
know why, don't we ?
1092
01:23:05,885 --> 01:23:07,285
No, sir.
1093
01:23:07,325 --> 01:23:10,526
We all know there's more than
an occasional Limerick man...
1094
01:23:10,606 --> 01:23:15,326
...been seen trotting around with
a Piccadilly tart, don't we ?
1095
01:23:15,366 --> 01:23:18,127
He's not in Piccadilly, sir.
He's in Coventry.
1096
01:23:18,207 --> 01:23:22,927
Mam went begging
again at the St. Vincent de Paul.
1097
01:23:23,007 --> 01:23:26,768
She got a food voucher so that at least
we could have a Christmas dinner.
1098
01:23:36,009 --> 01:23:38,249
And then, on Christmas Eve,...
1099
01:23:38,329 --> 01:23:40,529
...our neighbor,
Walter the horse, died.
1100
01:23:40,609 --> 01:23:43,610
And our dad came home.
1101
01:23:43,650 --> 01:23:45,530
It's Pa !
1102
01:23:45,570 --> 01:23:47,450
Dad ! Dad !
1103
01:24:07,972 --> 01:24:09,853
Hey.
1104
01:24:09,893 --> 01:24:13,733
- We were expecting you yesterday.
- Aye, well.
1105
01:24:17,213 --> 01:24:19,294
Jesus and Mary,
what have you done to yourself ?
1106
01:24:19,374 --> 01:24:21,294
Well, that Irish Sea
was very rough, you know.
1107
01:24:21,374 --> 01:24:25,974
Bumped my head.
Nearly fell over the side.
1108
01:24:26,054 --> 01:24:27,975
Wouldn't be a fight, would it ?
Wouldn't be the drink ?
1109
01:24:30,015 --> 01:24:32,455
You said you'd
bring us something.
1110
01:24:37,776 --> 01:24:40,416
Well, uh,
1111
01:24:40,456 --> 01:24:42,336
I have.
1112
01:24:48,297 --> 01:24:50,537
Got a bit peckish
on the boat, did you ?
1113
01:24:53,538 --> 01:24:56,578
We'll have them tomorrow
after our Christmas dinner.
1114
01:24:57,578 --> 01:24:59,458
Did you bring any money ?
1115
01:25:01,739 --> 01:25:04,699
You drank the money,
didn't you ?
1116
01:25:06,499 --> 01:25:11,140
Well, times are hard, Angela.
Jobs are scarce.
1117
01:25:11,180 --> 01:25:15,460
- You drank the money, Da ?
- You drank the money.
1118
01:25:20,181 --> 01:25:23,941
So they have no respect
for their father now, eh ?
1119
01:25:27,701 --> 01:25:29,822
- I have to go and see a man.
- Go and see a man,...
1120
01:25:29,902 --> 01:25:32,382
...but don't be coming home drunk,
singing your stupid songs.
1121
01:25:59,465 --> 01:26:01,425
Eat something.
It's Christmas.
1122
01:26:03,266 --> 01:26:05,786
I'm not hungry.
1123
01:26:05,866 --> 01:26:08,026
But if no one wants them,
I'll have one of them sheep's eyes.
1124
01:26:08,106 --> 01:26:10,786
- Oh, not the eyes, Dad.
- Da, don't.
1125
01:26:10,866 --> 01:26:13,547
- Oh, Dad, don't.
- What's the matter with you ?
1126
01:26:13,587 --> 01:26:16,587
You're not going to eat that,
are you ? Oh !
1127
01:26:16,667 --> 01:26:19,307
Dad, oh, yuck.
1128
01:26:19,347 --> 01:26:21,668
- You're disgusting.
- Lovely.
1129
01:26:21,748 --> 01:26:25,068
There's great nourishment
in the eyes.
1130
01:26:32,269 --> 01:26:34,109
Right.
1131
01:26:37,269 --> 01:26:39,110
Where are you going ?
1132
01:26:39,190 --> 01:26:41,030
Going to London.
1133
01:26:42,910 --> 01:26:44,870
On Christmas Day ?
1134
01:26:44,950 --> 01:26:46,831
It's the best day
to travel.
1135
01:26:46,871 --> 01:26:48,671
People in motorcars
are always willing to give...
1136
01:26:48,751 --> 01:26:51,311
...the working man
a lift to Dublin.
1137
01:26:51,391 --> 01:26:53,871
Think of all the hard times
of the Holy Family and feel guilty.
1138
01:26:53,951 --> 01:26:56,072
How will you get
to Holyhead ?
1139
01:26:56,152 --> 01:26:59,712
Same way I came.
1140
01:26:59,792 --> 01:27:02,552
There's always a time
when no one's looking.
1141
01:27:10,393 --> 01:27:12,234
Right.
1142
01:27:16,474 --> 01:27:19,754
You be good boys, eh ?
Say your prayers.
1143
01:27:19,834 --> 01:27:21,675
Obey your mother.
1144
01:27:26,995 --> 01:27:29,876
I'll write.
1145
01:27:33,916 --> 01:27:35,756
Here, pass them down.
1146
01:27:38,677 --> 01:27:40,997
Mmm. I got a nut.
1147
01:27:41,077 --> 01:27:44,597
I didn't get a nut.
How come Frankie always gets a nut ?
1148
01:27:44,637 --> 01:27:47,038
Nuts are good
for sore eyes.
1149
01:27:47,118 --> 01:27:49,238
I've a Turkish Delight.
1150
01:27:49,318 --> 01:27:51,238
Will the nut make his eyes better ?
1151
01:27:51,318 --> 01:27:53,158
'Twill.
1152
01:27:53,238 --> 01:27:55,078
One eye or two eyes ?
1153
01:27:55,158 --> 01:27:57,839
Two eyes, I think.
1154
01:27:57,919 --> 01:28:01,679
Frankie, if I had a nut,
I'd give it to you. I would, really.
1155
01:28:01,759 --> 01:28:04,800
Mam, can me and Michael
have another chocolate ? Just the one.
1156
01:28:45,684 --> 01:28:49,445
If I were in America,
I could say, "I love you, Dad",
1157
01:28:49,485 --> 01:28:51,765
...the way they do
in the films.
1158
01:28:51,845 --> 01:28:53,885
But in Limerick,
they'd laugh at you.
1159
01:28:53,965 --> 01:28:55,845
In Limerick, you're
only allowed to say...
1160
01:28:55,885 --> 01:28:58,846
...you love God and babies
and horses that win.
1161
01:28:58,926 --> 01:29:01,766
Anything else
is softness in the head.
1162
01:29:01,806 --> 01:29:04,366
Go home, Frankie.
1163
01:29:20,488 --> 01:29:23,329
In another week,
a telegram arrived for three pounds,...
1164
01:29:23,369 --> 01:29:26,809
...and we were in heaven.
1165
01:29:31,730 --> 01:29:35,170
The next Saturday,
there was no telegram.
1166
01:29:35,250 --> 01:29:37,490
Nor the week after.
1167
01:29:37,530 --> 01:29:40,531
Nor any Saturday forever.
1168
01:30:09,454 --> 01:30:11,294
What are you doing ?
1169
01:30:11,374 --> 01:30:14,174
Careful. We're making a fire.
It's freezing.
1170
01:30:14,254 --> 01:30:16,735
Come on, Frankie,
give us a hand, will you ?
1171
01:30:16,815 --> 01:30:19,135
Oh ! Yay !
1172
01:30:19,175 --> 01:30:22,055
Take the Pope, Michael.
1173
01:30:22,135 --> 01:30:24,016
Here, put the Pope
on the bed.
1174
01:30:49,979 --> 01:30:53,499
- Is that you, Frankie ?
- 'Tis, Mrs Purcell.
1175
01:30:53,539 --> 01:30:55,499
Come on in
out of the cold, son.
1176
01:30:58,179 --> 01:31:00,940
Holy blessed God,
you're freezing with the cold, boy.
1177
01:31:10,381 --> 01:31:13,661
Isn't it grand,
the radio, Frankie ?
1178
01:31:13,701 --> 01:31:16,302
'Tis, Mrs Purcell.
1179
01:31:16,382 --> 01:31:19,422
Do you see Bedouins
in the Sahara...
1180
01:31:19,502 --> 01:31:22,662
...and the cowboys
on the prairie ?
1181
01:31:22,702 --> 01:31:24,583
I do.
1182
01:31:24,623 --> 01:31:26,703
And people sipping wine
in cafés.
1183
01:31:26,783 --> 01:31:30,303
And sailors in their galleons
sipping their cocoa.
1184
01:31:30,383 --> 01:31:34,424
And plays about the Greeks, where they
have to pluck out their eyes...
1185
01:31:34,504 --> 01:31:36,984
...because they married
their mothers by mistake.
1186
01:31:37,064 --> 01:31:40,424
And the Shakespeare.
I love the Shakespeare.
1187
01:31:40,504 --> 01:31:43,145
Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes,
Mrs Purcell.
1188
01:31:43,225 --> 01:31:45,185
You can't get enough
of them.
1189
01:31:45,225 --> 01:31:49,825
I'm sure Mr Shakespeare
must have been an Irishman.
1190
01:31:49,865 --> 01:31:53,906
If you want
the things you love
1191
01:31:53,986 --> 01:31:57,026
You must have showers
1192
01:31:57,066 --> 01:32:00,427
Ah, Billie Holiday.
1193
01:32:02,147 --> 01:32:04,787
Oh, Billie, Billie.
1194
01:32:04,867 --> 01:32:06,827
I want to be with you
in America.
1195
01:32:06,907 --> 01:32:08,748
There'll be pennies
from heaven
1196
01:32:08,828 --> 01:32:11,308
For you and me
1197
01:32:11,388 --> 01:32:14,028
Oh, America.
1198
01:32:14,108 --> 01:32:16,508
Where no one has bad teeth
and everyone has a lavatory.
1199
01:32:25,910 --> 01:32:28,710
Great God in heaven,
where's the other room ?
1200
01:32:28,750 --> 01:32:30,630
What room ?
1201
01:32:30,670 --> 01:32:32,750
I rented you two rooms
up here, and one is gone.
1202
01:32:32,830 --> 01:32:35,951
I distinctly remember a wall
because I distinctly remember a room.
1203
01:32:36,031 --> 01:32:38,631
- Where's that room gone ?
- I don't remember a wall.
1204
01:32:38,711 --> 01:32:41,911
And if I don't remember a wall,
I can't remember a room.
1205
01:32:41,991 --> 01:32:44,912
I want to know where that wall is
and what she did with that room !
1206
01:32:44,992 --> 01:32:47,792
Do any of you
remember a wall ?
1207
01:32:47,832 --> 01:32:50,312
Is that the wall
we burned in the fire ?
1208
01:32:50,392 --> 01:32:52,953
Dear God.
This takes the bloody biscuit.
1209
01:32:53,033 --> 01:32:57,073
It's four weeks behind
in the rent you are, and now this.
1210
01:32:57,153 --> 01:32:59,193
Out, missus.
I'm putting you out.
1211
01:32:59,273 --> 01:33:01,114
One week from today,
I'll knock on this door,...
1212
01:33:01,194 --> 01:33:03,194
...and I want to find
nobody home.
1213
01:33:03,274 --> 01:33:06,514
Everybody out.
Never to return.
1214
01:33:06,594 --> 01:33:09,115
'Tis a pity you weren't alive
when the English...
1215
01:33:09,195 --> 01:33:11,595
...were evicting us
and leaving us on the road.
1216
01:33:11,635 --> 01:33:14,955
No lip from you, missus, or I'll send
the men to put you out tomorrow.
1217
01:33:14,995 --> 01:33:19,036
It's out on the pavement you'll be
with the sky peeing on your furniture.
1218
01:33:24,396 --> 01:33:27,197
Oh, dear God in heaven,
what am I going to do ?
1219
01:33:27,277 --> 01:33:30,037
Your cousin, Laman Griffin,
is living on the Rosbrien Road...
1220
01:33:30,117 --> 01:33:31,957
...in that little house
of his mother's.
1221
01:33:32,037 --> 01:33:34,357
He'll surely take you in
till better times come.
1222
01:33:34,397 --> 01:33:36,318
I'll go and see him now.
1223
01:33:36,398 --> 01:33:39,158
Frankie, come with me.
And put your mac on.
1224
01:33:39,238 --> 01:33:41,278
I haven't got a mac.
1225
01:33:41,358 --> 01:33:43,639
Jesus, what a family.
1226
01:33:50,239 --> 01:33:52,400
Grandma caught a chill that day,...
1227
01:33:52,440 --> 01:33:55,280
...and the chill
turned to pneumonia.
1228
01:33:55,320 --> 01:33:57,400
They shifted her
to the City Home Hospital,
1229
01:33:57,480 --> 01:34:00,320
...and when she died,
Mam said that her family...
1230
01:34:00,400 --> 01:34:03,561
...was disappearing
before her very eyes.
1231
01:34:13,682 --> 01:34:16,362
- Frankie, will you shut the door ?
- Let's go.
1232
01:34:16,442 --> 01:34:18,803
- Right. Let's go.
- Malachy, the wheel's all bockety.
1233
01:34:18,843 --> 01:34:21,243
- Kaiser Bill marched over the hill
- Shut up, will you ?
1234
01:34:21,283 --> 01:34:23,963
To fight
the British Army
1235
01:34:24,043 --> 01:34:28,164
They're all going to know
we got the eviction. Will you be quiet ?
1236
01:34:34,364 --> 01:34:37,605
And so Malachy, Michael, Mam, and me...
1237
01:34:37,685 --> 01:34:42,365
...moved into mom's cousin's...
Laman Griffin... on the Rosbrien Road.
1238
01:34:45,766 --> 01:34:48,806
- Did you get the library books ?
- I did.
1239
01:34:48,886 --> 01:34:52,326
Go in the yard and see if there's
something else to go on this fire.
1240
01:34:52,406 --> 01:34:55,687
- Is that for us ?
- No, his lordship upstairs.
1241
01:34:55,767 --> 01:34:58,807
Why ask ?
It was the same every week...
1242
01:34:58,847 --> 01:35:01,407
...one steak, four potatoes, an onion,
and a bottle of stout.
1243
01:35:01,487 --> 01:35:03,808
Frankie, are you back ?
1244
01:35:03,848 --> 01:35:05,728
Will you
take up the books ?
1245
01:35:14,449 --> 01:35:16,569
Good boy, Frankie.
Put them on the bed there.
1246
01:35:16,609 --> 01:35:18,529
Angela, the chamber pot
is full.
1247
01:35:18,569 --> 01:35:21,250
Is there anything else
your lordship would like ?
1248
01:35:21,330 --> 01:35:23,610
Woman's work, Angela.
Woman's work and free rent.
1249
01:35:23,650 --> 01:35:25,890
- I'll empty it.
- You will ?
1250
01:35:25,930 --> 01:35:29,611
Okay, Frankie. Take it outside
and rinse it under the tap.
1251
01:35:29,691 --> 01:35:31,811
And from now on,
that will be your job.
1252
01:36:04,735 --> 01:36:08,735
America,
wonderfull and of the Arapaho,...
1253
01:36:08,775 --> 01:36:11,175
...Cheyenne, Chippewa,...
1254
01:36:11,255 --> 01:36:15,096
...Sioux, Apache, Iroquois.
1255
01:36:15,176 --> 01:36:18,656
Poetry, boys.
And the chiefs ! Listen.
1256
01:36:18,696 --> 01:36:21,217
Kicking Bear,
Rain-in-the-Face,...
1257
01:36:21,297 --> 01:36:23,297
...Sitting Bull,
Crazy Horse,...
1258
01:36:23,377 --> 01:36:25,417
...and the man himself,...
1259
01:36:25,497 --> 01:36:28,377
...the genius Geronimo.
1260
01:36:31,058 --> 01:36:34,858
Stock your minds, boys,
and you can move through the world...
1261
01:36:34,898 --> 01:36:37,058
...resplendent.
1262
01:36:37,098 --> 01:36:40,099
Clarke, define "resplendent."
1263
01:36:40,179 --> 01:36:43,859
- I think it's shining, sir.
- Pithy but adequate.
1264
01:36:43,939 --> 01:36:46,460
McCourt, give us a sentence
with "pithy."
1265
01:36:48,860 --> 01:36:51,500
Clarke is pithy
but adequate, sir.
1266
01:36:51,580 --> 01:36:53,700
Adroit, McCourt.
1267
01:36:53,780 --> 01:36:57,221
You have a mind for the priesthood,
my boy, or politics.
1268
01:36:58,981 --> 01:37:01,381
Tell you mother
to come and see me.
1269
01:37:01,421 --> 01:37:03,341
Hoppy O'Halloran told Mam...
1270
01:37:03,381 --> 01:37:05,262
...to take me
to the Christian Brothers...
1271
01:37:05,342 --> 01:37:08,462
...to say he sent me,
and I was a bright boy...
1272
01:37:08,542 --> 01:37:10,382
...and ought to be going
to secondary school...
1273
01:37:10,462 --> 01:37:12,423
...and maybe
to university even.
1274
01:37:12,463 --> 01:37:14,463
I wish he'd mind
his own business.
1275
01:37:14,543 --> 01:37:16,503
I want to quit school forever and get
a job with wages every Friday night...
1276
01:37:16,538 --> 01:37:18,463
I want to quit school forever and get
a job with wages every Friday night...
1277
01:37:18,543 --> 01:37:22,104
...and go to the pictures
every Saturday like everybody else.
1278
01:37:22,184 --> 01:37:24,064
I've come to see
Brother Murray.
1279
01:37:24,144 --> 01:37:26,104
I don't know why we bothered.
They took one look at us...
1280
01:37:26,184 --> 01:37:30,505
- What do you want ?
- This is my son Frank.
1281
01:37:30,585 --> 01:37:33,145
...and said no.
1282
01:37:35,825 --> 01:37:37,945
Francis, will you
listen to me ?
1283
01:37:37,985 --> 01:37:39,906
Are you listening ?
1284
01:37:39,986 --> 01:37:41,826
I am.
1285
01:37:41,906 --> 01:37:44,706
You're never to let anybody slam
the door in your face again.
1286
01:37:44,786 --> 01:37:46,746
Do you hear me ?
1287
01:37:46,826 --> 01:37:48,707
I do.
1288
01:37:50,067 --> 01:37:54,747
Impurity.
I say again, impurity.
1289
01:37:54,827 --> 01:37:58,388
Impurity
is so grave a sin...
1290
01:37:59,748 --> 01:38:02,788
...the Virgin Mary turns
her face away and weeps.
1291
01:38:02,868 --> 01:38:05,829
She weeps when
she looks down...
1292
01:38:05,909 --> 01:38:07,789
...that long, dreary vista
of time...
1293
01:38:07,869 --> 01:38:11,869
...and beholds in horror
the spectacle of Limerick boys...
1294
01:38:11,949 --> 01:38:15,870
...defiling themselves,
polluting themselves,...
1295
01:38:15,950 --> 01:38:20,230
...soiling their young bodies
which are the temple of the Holy Ghost.
1296
01:38:20,310 --> 01:38:23,071
Interfering with themselves.
1297
01:38:23,151 --> 01:38:26,471
We pray to the Virgin Mary
to say we're sorry...
1298
01:38:26,511 --> 01:38:30,111
...because we can't stop
interfering with ourselves.
1299
01:38:30,191 --> 01:38:32,472
- The dong !
- The dong !
1300
01:38:32,552 --> 01:38:34,672
- The prick !
- The prick !
1301
01:38:34,752 --> 01:38:37,592
- The dick !
- The dick !
1302
01:38:37,672 --> 01:38:39,513
- The langer !
- The langer !
1303
01:38:39,593 --> 01:38:41,633
- The excitement !
- The excitement !
1304
01:38:41,713 --> 01:38:45,673
- The excitement ?
- Yeah, the excitement.
1305
01:38:45,753 --> 01:38:48,514
Yeah, I heard of that.
1306
01:38:52,394 --> 01:38:56,274
Paddy Clohessy found
a priest to confess our hideous sins to.
1307
01:38:56,354 --> 01:39:01,035
He's 90 years old
and deaf as a turnip.
1308
01:39:01,115 --> 01:39:02,955
Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.
1309
01:39:03,035 --> 01:39:06,876
It's been ages since me last confession.
I've been masturbating.
1310
01:39:06,956 --> 01:39:09,396
Except one day,
he died and didn't tell us.
1311
01:39:09,476 --> 01:39:12,116
Bless me, Father,
for I have sinned.
1312
01:39:12,196 --> 01:39:14,677
It's been a fort...
1313
01:39:14,757 --> 01:39:19,237
It's been a fortnight
since my last confession.
1314
01:39:19,277 --> 01:39:21,517
And what have you done
since then, my child ?
1315
01:39:21,597 --> 01:39:26,358
I, uh, I hit my brother.
1316
01:39:26,438 --> 01:39:28,278
I lied to my mother.
1317
01:39:28,358 --> 01:39:30,798
Yes, my child.
And what else ?
1318
01:39:32,279 --> 01:39:35,839
Uh, I did dirty things,
Father.
1319
01:39:35,919 --> 01:39:40,440
Ah, my child, was that with yourself
or with another ?
1320
01:39:40,520 --> 01:39:42,480
Or with some class
of beast ?
1321
01:39:42,560 --> 01:39:46,000
Beast ?
1322
01:39:46,080 --> 01:39:48,520
I never heard of a sin
like that, Father.
1323
01:39:48,600 --> 01:39:50,641
This priest
must be from the country.
1324
01:39:50,721 --> 01:39:53,121
He's opening up
new worlds for me.
1325
01:40:09,043 --> 01:40:11,563
I'll just take him up
his last mug of tea.
1326
01:40:44,967 --> 01:40:46,807
It's a disgrace...
1327
01:40:46,887 --> 01:40:49,207
...that boys like McCourt...
1328
01:40:49,287 --> 01:40:52,248
...and Clarke and Kennedy...
1329
01:40:52,328 --> 01:40:56,968
...have to hew wood
and draw water...
1330
01:40:57,048 --> 01:41:01,049
...in this so-called free
and independent Ireland...
1331
01:41:01,129 --> 01:41:05,809
...that keeps a class system
foisted on us by the English.
1332
01:41:05,889 --> 01:41:08,570
Well, it disgusts me.
1333
01:41:08,650 --> 01:41:12,210
We throw our talented children
onto the dung heap.
1334
01:41:12,290 --> 01:41:14,770
If this is the end
of school for you,...
1335
01:41:14,850 --> 01:41:18,931
...you must get out of this country,
boys, and go to America.
1336
01:41:20,611 --> 01:41:23,171
McCourt, do you hear me ?
1337
01:41:23,251 --> 01:41:25,012
I do, sir.
1338
01:41:26,532 --> 01:41:30,052
Laman Griffin
was drunk every night.
1339
01:41:30,132 --> 01:41:33,333
Worst still was Fridays when we had
to watch him eat his fish and chips.
1340
01:41:33,413 --> 01:41:35,533
Woman, boil some water
for tea.
1341
01:41:35,613 --> 01:41:38,453
We've no coal
or turf.
1342
01:41:38,493 --> 01:41:40,373
You useless
great lump,...
1343
01:41:40,413 --> 01:41:42,894
...living free under me roof
with you snotty-nosed pack of brats.
1344
01:41:42,974 --> 01:41:45,414
You.
1345
01:41:45,494 --> 01:41:48,534
Go to the shop for a few sods
and some kindling.
1346
01:41:48,614 --> 01:41:51,615
Come on. Or are you as useless
as your mother ?
1347
01:41:53,255 --> 01:41:55,575
Did you empty
the chamber pot today ?
1348
01:41:55,655 --> 01:41:58,095
Shite.
I left it on the stairs.
1349
01:41:58,175 --> 01:42:01,216
You stand there with your thick gob
and tell me you didn't do it ?
1350
01:42:01,296 --> 01:42:04,976
I'm sorry. I forgot.
I'll do it now.
1351
01:42:05,056 --> 01:42:08,297
- He couldn't do it.
- Shut up, woman.
1352
01:42:08,377 --> 01:42:10,697
It was his last day at school,
and he had to go to the doctor.
1353
01:42:10,777 --> 01:42:12,497
I said, shut up, woman !
1354
01:42:12,577 --> 01:42:14,497
You can't tell us to shut up.
You're not our father !
1355
01:42:14,577 --> 01:42:18,978
If I have to get up from this table,
you'll be calling for your patron saint.
1356
01:42:19,058 --> 01:42:21,298
Shut your gob.
1357
01:42:21,378 --> 01:42:23,818
I'll kill you !
1358
01:42:23,898 --> 01:42:27,059
- You're not my father !
- Stop it !
1359
01:42:27,139 --> 01:42:29,939
Leave him alone, sweet Jesus.
Stop it !
1360
01:42:30,019 --> 01:42:33,099
He doesn't mean any harm.
He's only a child.
1361
01:42:33,179 --> 01:42:35,140
And he's to start work
at the post office on Monday.
1362
01:42:35,220 --> 01:42:37,060
Give me a fag, woman.
1363
01:42:37,140 --> 01:42:39,700
I'm telling you,
that boy is a little shite.
1364
01:42:39,780 --> 01:42:41,740
I'll talk to him tomorrow.
1365
01:42:41,820 --> 01:42:43,661
I'm going to bed.
1366
01:42:47,981 --> 01:42:50,501
I heard them talking.
1367
01:42:50,581 --> 01:42:53,822
I heard the sound of Laman's boots
as he scraped his way to bed.
1368
01:42:53,862 --> 01:42:56,062
I thought Mam would come
and kiss me goodnight,...
1369
01:42:56,142 --> 01:42:59,782
...to say thank you
for sticking up for her.
1370
01:43:01,383 --> 01:43:04,023
But no.
She went to him.
1371
01:43:31,106 --> 01:43:33,466
Where are you going, Frankie ?
1372
01:43:33,546 --> 01:43:35,387
I'm leaving.
1373
01:43:35,467 --> 01:43:37,307
Why are you leaving,
Frankie ?
1374
01:43:37,387 --> 01:43:41,347
Because if I stay,
I'll take a knife to his neck.
1375
01:43:41,427 --> 01:43:44,068
Will you kill him ?
1376
01:43:44,148 --> 01:43:46,228
Go to sleep, Malachy.
1377
01:44:46,395 --> 01:44:49,035
You're not having my chips.
1378
01:44:49,115 --> 01:44:53,676
I just wanted to stay
the night, Uncle Pat.
1379
01:44:53,716 --> 01:44:56,036
All right.
1380
01:44:56,116 --> 01:44:58,676
You can stay
in me mother's bed.
1381
01:44:58,756 --> 01:45:01,356
- Don't expect me to feed you, though.
- I won't.
1382
01:45:01,476 --> 01:45:04,757
There's not a scrap of food
in the house.
1383
01:45:08,757 --> 01:45:10,958
What happened
to your face ?
1384
01:45:11,038 --> 01:45:13,478
It's all swole.
1385
01:45:13,558 --> 01:45:17,118
Did someone punch you ?
1386
01:45:17,198 --> 01:45:19,158
Yeah.
1387
01:45:19,239 --> 01:45:21,679
Who was punching you ?
1388
01:45:21,759 --> 01:45:24,079
Joe Louis.
1389
01:45:24,159 --> 01:45:25,959
Joe Louis ?
1390
01:45:28,920 --> 01:45:30,920
I thought he lived
in America.
1391
01:45:31,000 --> 01:45:33,160
Was he visiting
Limerick ?
1392
01:45:33,240 --> 01:45:35,120
He was, Uncle Pat.
1393
01:45:35,160 --> 01:45:38,961
That's not right,
him hitting a wee boy...
1394
01:45:39,001 --> 01:45:41,281
...and him being heavy weight champion
of America and all.
1395
01:45:41,361 --> 01:45:44,081
The world champion
he is, Uncle Pat.
1396
01:45:44,121 --> 01:45:46,842
That's worse.
1397
01:45:46,922 --> 01:45:49,002
And look at you,
so skinny.
1398
01:45:49,082 --> 01:45:51,442
Those arms wouldn't lift
two stamps.
1399
01:45:53,202 --> 01:45:56,643
Some things
is most peculiar, Frankie.
1400
01:45:58,563 --> 01:46:00,403
I'm off to bed.
1401
01:46:12,845 --> 01:46:14,805
I was so hungry.
1402
01:46:14,885 --> 01:46:17,965
I sat there and licked the front page
and all the headlines.
1403
01:46:18,045 --> 01:46:22,646
I licked the great attacks
of Patton and Montgomery.
1404
01:46:22,686 --> 01:46:24,326
I licked the sports pages.
1405
01:46:24,406 --> 01:46:26,806
I licked the market prices
of eggs and butter and bacon.
1406
01:46:26,886 --> 01:46:31,047
I sucked that paper until my face was
as black as Al Jolson's.
1407
01:46:34,167 --> 01:46:36,487
Whoa, boy. Whoa, boy.
Easy. Easy.
1408
01:47:07,411 --> 01:47:09,251
Let's go, Patty.
1409
01:47:11,251 --> 01:47:14,532
We have to get you...
Up you go.
1410
01:47:14,612 --> 01:47:16,692
Come on, Pat,
up the steps.
1411
01:47:16,772 --> 01:47:18,652
How did you let him
get this drunk ?
1412
01:47:18,692 --> 01:47:20,572
Drink never hurt anyone,
did it ?
1413
01:47:20,612 --> 01:47:23,613
- I want a drink.
- Tomorrow.
1414
01:47:23,693 --> 01:47:25,533
- Push him, Pa.
- I'm pushing. I'm pushing.
1415
01:47:25,613 --> 01:47:27,773
Come on, Pat.
1416
01:47:27,853 --> 01:47:31,774
Christ, you're taking
both sides of the room.
1417
01:47:34,374 --> 01:47:36,814
What are you doing
in this house, in that bed ?
1418
01:47:36,894 --> 01:47:39,455
Get up and put the kettle
on for your poor Uncle Pat...
1419
01:47:39,535 --> 01:47:41,535
...that fell down
the worse for drink.
1420
01:47:44,055 --> 01:47:47,096
Mother of God !
1421
01:47:47,176 --> 01:47:49,416
You're wearing
me dead mother's dress.
1422
01:47:49,496 --> 01:47:51,536
I washed my clothes
for the big job.
1423
01:47:51,616 --> 01:47:54,976
- What big job ?
- Telegram boy at the post office.
1424
01:47:55,056 --> 01:47:57,697
If the post office
are taking on the likes of you,...
1425
01:47:57,777 --> 01:48:00,137
- ...they must be in a desperate state.
- Ah, Frankie.
1426
01:48:00,217 --> 01:48:02,657
You look... gorgeous.
1427
01:48:02,737 --> 01:48:05,578
Jesus, what did
you wash these in ?
1428
01:48:05,658 --> 01:48:08,978
- Carbolic soap.
- They smell like dead pigeons !
1429
01:48:09,058 --> 01:48:11,298
You'll make
a show of us.
1430
01:48:20,779 --> 01:48:22,660
What time do you have to be
at that job ?
1431
01:48:22,700 --> 01:48:24,580
9:00.
1432
01:48:24,620 --> 01:48:27,740
Tell them that your aunt was waiting
for you and that's why you're late.
1433
01:48:27,780 --> 01:48:29,780
Late ?
Why do I have to be late ?
1434
01:48:29,860 --> 01:48:33,501
Just shut up and do what
you're bloody well told.
1435
01:48:34,661 --> 01:48:37,661
Mmm.
That's more like it.
1436
01:48:37,741 --> 01:48:40,582
I often wondered
why Aunt Aggie was always so angry.
1437
01:48:40,662 --> 01:48:42,502
But you're going to need
a new shirt.
1438
01:48:42,582 --> 01:48:44,542
And shoes, not boots.
Shoes.
1439
01:48:44,582 --> 01:48:47,182
Compared to Mam,
she had everything,...
1440
01:48:47,262 --> 01:48:49,383
...and she didn't have any kids
to keep her poor.
1441
01:48:49,463 --> 01:48:52,863
And here she is buying me clothes
for my new job.
1442
01:48:52,943 --> 01:48:55,303
That's grand.
1443
01:48:55,383 --> 01:48:57,824
Here's two shillings
to get tea and a bun for your birthday.
1444
01:49:00,224 --> 01:49:03,304
You look so smart,
people will think you've robbed a bank.
1445
01:49:12,385 --> 01:49:16,266
She certainly
was a mystery, my Aunt Aggie.
1446
01:49:16,346 --> 01:49:18,586
A complete mystery.
1447
01:49:27,907 --> 01:49:31,748
We know every avenue,
road, street...
1448
01:49:31,828 --> 01:49:35,508
...terrace, mews, place,
close and lane.
1449
01:49:35,588 --> 01:49:37,988
You don't have
to have a hanker
1450
01:49:38,068 --> 01:49:40,749
To be a broker
or banker
1451
01:49:40,829 --> 01:49:44,749
No, sirree,just simply be
my mother's son-in-law
1452
01:49:44,829 --> 01:49:47,149
Needn't even think
of tryin'
1453
01:49:47,229 --> 01:49:49,470
To be a mighty
social lion
1454
01:49:49,550 --> 01:49:53,630
Sippin' tea if you will be
my mother's son-in-law
1455
01:49:53,710 --> 01:49:56,150
There isn't a door
in Limerick we don't know.
1456
01:49:56,230 --> 01:49:59,151
We knock on all kinds of doors...
iron, oak, plywood.
1457
01:49:59,231 --> 01:50:03,631
Twenty thousand doors. We knock,
kick, push. We ring and buzz bells.
1458
01:50:05,551 --> 01:50:08,272
Risking life and limb
as we fight off everydog...
1459
01:50:08,312 --> 01:50:10,832
...who wants to turn us
into dinner.
1460
01:50:10,912 --> 01:50:13,952
There are telegrams
for the houses of priests.
1461
01:50:14,032 --> 01:50:15,233
God bless you.
1462
01:50:15,313 --> 01:50:17,873
But if you waited for tips
from nuns and priests,...
1463
01:50:17,953 --> 01:50:20,553
...you'd surely die
on their doorsteps.
1464
01:50:20,713 --> 01:50:22,113
You're lucky to get
the Carmody telegram.
1465
01:50:22,193 --> 01:50:23,193
I am ?
1466
01:50:23,273 --> 01:50:25,114
They're big tippers.
You'll get a shilling.
1467
01:50:25,194 --> 01:50:27,034
How come
I got the telegram ?
1468
01:50:27,114 --> 01:50:29,074
- 'Cause nobody else will go there.
- Why ?
1469
01:50:29,154 --> 01:50:31,314
'Cause Theresa Carmody's
got the consumption.
1470
01:50:37,275 --> 01:50:40,355
You don't have
to speak like that so
1471
01:50:40,435 --> 01:50:42,636
You can tell the world
I said so
1472
01:50:42,676 --> 01:50:47,156
Can't you see you got to be
my mother's son-in-law
1473
01:50:54,197 --> 01:50:56,757
I heard
that sick people like Theresa...
1474
01:50:56,837 --> 01:50:58,678
...know that they haven't
got long to live...
1475
01:50:58,758 --> 01:51:02,518
...and so it makes them mad
for love and romance...
1476
01:51:02,598 --> 01:51:04,558
...and dirty things
in general.
1477
01:51:04,638 --> 01:51:07,919
- Telegram.
- That's what they say, anyway.
1478
01:51:07,959 --> 01:51:12,679
- You're all wet and bleeding.
- I skidded on me bike.
1479
01:51:12,759 --> 01:51:15,840
Come in. I'll put something
on your cuts.
1480
01:51:15,920 --> 01:51:18,320
I wonder should I go in.
1481
01:51:18,360 --> 01:51:20,280
I might get the consumption.
1482
01:51:20,360 --> 01:51:22,960
That'll be the end of me,
and I'll never get to America.
1483
01:51:23,040 --> 01:51:26,921
- Come in. You'll perish standing there.
- I need the shilling tip.
1484
01:51:37,002 --> 01:51:39,242
Oh, you big poltroon.
1485
01:51:41,242 --> 01:51:44,363
Now that's better.
1486
01:51:44,443 --> 01:51:48,403
Why don't you take off your clothes
and dry them on the screen there ?
1487
01:51:48,483 --> 01:51:50,363
Uh, no.
1488
01:51:50,403 --> 01:51:52,044
Ah, do.
1489
01:51:52,124 --> 01:51:54,884
I will.
1490
01:52:17,567 --> 01:52:20,407
Lord, you might be scrawny,...
1491
01:52:20,487 --> 01:52:22,927
...but that's a fine boyo
you have there.
1492
01:52:23,087 --> 01:52:27,128
My head is full
of sin and fear of consumption.
1493
01:52:27,208 --> 01:52:29,048
Her green eyes...
1494
01:52:29,128 --> 01:52:32,048
...and my shilling tip.
1495
01:52:32,128 --> 01:52:35,409
And she's on top of me,
and I might be killing myself...
1496
01:52:35,449 --> 01:52:37,569
...catching consumption
from her mouth.
1497
01:52:37,649 --> 01:52:39,849
I'm riding to heaven.
I'm falling off a cliff.
1498
01:52:39,889 --> 01:52:42,930
And if this is a sin,
I don't give a fiddler's fart.
1499
01:52:47,010 --> 01:52:48,970
Fuck off, you bollocks !
1500
01:52:51,571 --> 01:52:54,731
Your mouth is a lavatory, McCourt.
Did you hear me ?
1501
01:52:54,771 --> 01:52:57,851
- I did, Miss Barry.
- You've been heard on the stairs.
1502
01:52:57,931 --> 01:53:00,772
- Yes, Miss Barry.
- Shut up, McCourt.
1503
01:53:00,852 --> 01:53:03,412
- I will, Miss Barry.
- Not another word, McCourt.
1504
01:53:03,492 --> 01:53:05,612
- No, Miss Barry.
- I said shut up, McCourt.
1505
01:53:05,652 --> 01:53:07,252
All right, Miss Barry.
1506
01:53:07,332 --> 01:53:10,813
That's the end of it,
McCourt. Don't try me.
1507
01:53:10,893 --> 01:53:12,493
I... I won't, Miss Barry.
1508
01:53:12,533 --> 01:53:15,613
- Mother of God, give me patience !
- Yes, Miss Barry.
1509
01:53:19,094 --> 01:53:21,014
Take the last word,
McCourt.
1510
01:53:21,094 --> 01:53:23,774
Take it. Take it. Take it !
1511
01:53:28,855 --> 01:53:31,295
I will, Miss Barry.
1512
01:53:50,617 --> 01:53:52,858
What do you want most
in the world ?
1513
01:53:54,298 --> 01:53:56,178
To go to America.
1514
01:53:57,818 --> 01:53:59,858
What do you want most ?
1515
01:53:59,938 --> 01:54:03,299
Oh, to fall in love
with some gorgeous man.
1516
01:54:03,379 --> 01:54:06,539
Oh, hold me, Frankie.
1517
01:54:28,542 --> 01:54:30,302
Uncle Pat ?
1518
01:54:34,062 --> 01:54:36,543
Hello, Frankie.
1519
01:54:46,184 --> 01:54:48,304
How's the job ?
1520
01:54:48,384 --> 01:54:51,344
Grand.
1521
01:54:51,424 --> 01:54:53,465
Uncle Pat
lookin' after you ?
1522
01:54:53,505 --> 01:54:55,385
He is.
1523
01:54:55,425 --> 01:54:57,985
But I can
look after meself.
1524
01:54:59,625 --> 01:55:01,505
That's good.
1525
01:55:01,585 --> 01:55:05,066
- You're getting enough to eat, I see.
- I am.
1526
01:55:05,146 --> 01:55:07,066
Would you like a chip ?
1527
01:55:07,106 --> 01:55:09,386
No.
1528
01:55:14,307 --> 01:55:17,027
Michael and little Alphie
are fine.
1529
01:55:17,107 --> 01:55:19,027
That's good.
1530
01:55:20,148 --> 01:55:22,468
We all miss Malachy.
He's, uh...
1531
01:55:22,548 --> 01:55:25,748
- Miss him ? He...
- He's gone to join the army band !
1532
01:55:25,828 --> 01:55:28,669
- Playin' the bugle.
- The bugle ?
1533
01:55:28,709 --> 01:55:31,389
Can you imagine that, playin' the bugle ?
Playin' the fool, more like.
1534
01:55:31,429 --> 01:55:36,029
That's Malachy, all right.
1535
01:55:36,069 --> 01:55:38,070
Mad Malachy.
1536
01:55:45,951 --> 01:55:49,151
I miss him too.
1537
01:56:17,514 --> 01:56:20,114
- Telegram, Mrs Carmody.
- Thank you.
1538
01:56:20,195 --> 01:56:24,035
I usually deliver the telegram
to your daughter.
1539
01:56:24,075 --> 01:56:26,635
- Theresa, isn't it ?
- Theresa's in the sanatorium.
1540
01:56:45,037 --> 01:56:48,998
Please, God,
it wasn't Theresa's fault.
1541
01:56:49,078 --> 01:56:53,038
The excitement on the sofa
is what the consumption does to you.
1542
01:56:53,118 --> 01:56:55,079
I love her, God,...
1543
01:56:55,119 --> 01:56:58,879
...just like St. Francis loved
any bird or beast or fish.
1544
01:56:58,959 --> 01:57:01,679
Please, God,
take the consumption away,...
1545
01:57:01,719 --> 01:57:03,960
...and I promise I'll never
go near her again.
1546
01:57:19,561 --> 01:57:23,002
Anima eius, et animae
omnium fidelium defunctorum,...
1547
01:57:23,082 --> 01:57:27,282
...per misericordiam Dei,
requiescant in pacem.
1548
01:57:28,322 --> 01:57:30,403
Amen.
1549
01:57:34,643 --> 01:57:37,603
I want to tell
the priest and Theresa's mam and dad...
1550
01:57:37,683 --> 01:57:40,724
...that it was me, Frank McCourt,
the dirty rotten thing...
1551
01:57:40,804 --> 01:57:42,924
...that sent Theresa
straight to hell.
1552
01:57:45,364 --> 01:57:48,845
I think of Theresa,
cold in her coffin,...
1553
01:57:48,885 --> 01:57:51,245
...the red hair,
the green eyes.
1554
01:57:53,005 --> 01:57:54,885
I can't understand
what I feel,...
1555
01:57:54,965 --> 01:57:58,766
...but I know that with all the people
who died in my family...
1556
01:57:58,806 --> 01:58:01,686
...and all the people who died
in the lanes around me,...
1557
01:58:01,766 --> 01:58:04,526
...I never had a pain like this
in my heart,...
1558
01:58:04,567 --> 01:58:06,767
...and I hope
I never will again.
1559
01:58:11,127 --> 01:58:13,848
And then, as luck would have it,
I had to deliver a telegram...
1560
01:58:13,928 --> 01:58:15,928
...to the moneylender,
Mrs Finucane,...
1561
01:58:16,008 --> 01:58:18,808
...and St. Francis
smiled down on me once more.
1562
01:58:27,249 --> 01:58:29,409
How old are you, boy ?
1563
01:58:29,489 --> 01:58:31,810
Fifteen and some, missus.
1564
01:58:31,890 --> 01:58:33,850
Old enough
and ugly enough.
1565
01:58:33,930 --> 01:58:35,770
Yes, missus.
1566
01:58:35,850 --> 01:58:38,370
But are you smart, boy ?
Are you in any way intelligent ?
1567
01:58:39,411 --> 01:58:41,291
I can read and write,
Mrs Finucane.
1568
01:58:41,371 --> 01:58:43,531
There are people in the lunatic asylum
can read and write.
1569
01:58:43,611 --> 01:58:46,211
- Can you write a letter ?
- I can, Mrs Finucane.
1570
01:58:46,291 --> 01:58:49,132
I'll give you three pence
for every letter you write,...
1571
01:58:49,212 --> 01:58:51,132
...and three pence if it
brings in a payment.
1572
01:58:51,212 --> 01:58:55,092
Come on Thursday. Bring your own paper
and envelopes with you.
1573
01:58:58,133 --> 01:59:01,213
"O'Brien, Donnolley,
Meagher, Hannon,...
1574
01:59:01,293 --> 01:59:03,733
...old Mrs Keneally,
Mulcahy, Ahern."
1575
01:59:03,773 --> 01:59:06,334
We'll see how you do
with that lot for a start.
1576
01:59:06,414 --> 01:59:10,094
Threaten them, boy.
Threaten the life out of them.
1577
01:59:11,254 --> 01:59:13,414
How does this sound ?
1578
01:59:13,494 --> 01:59:15,335
"Dear Mrs O'Brien :
1579
01:59:15,415 --> 01:59:19,415
In as much as you have not seen fit
to pay me what you owe me,...
1580
01:59:19,455 --> 01:59:21,775
...I may be forced
to resort to legal action.
1581
01:59:21,855 --> 01:59:26,576
There's your son, Michael, parading
around the world in his new suit,...
1582
01:59:26,656 --> 01:59:28,416
...which I paid for,...
1583
01:59:28,496 --> 01:59:32,857
...while I myself have barely a crust
to keep body and soul together."
1584
01:59:32,937 --> 01:59:37,177
"I am sure you don't want to languish
in the dungeons of Limerick jail,...
1585
01:59:37,217 --> 01:59:39,257
...far from friends
and family.
1586
01:59:39,337 --> 01:59:42,498
I remain yours
in lit... lit..."
1587
01:59:42,578 --> 01:59:45,498
- What are these words, boy ?
- Litigious anticipation.
1588
01:59:46,818 --> 01:59:48,698
That's a powerful letter.
1589
01:59:50,019 --> 01:59:53,059
This word, "in as much."
1590
01:59:53,139 --> 01:59:56,219
That's a holy terror of a word.
What does it mean ?
1591
01:59:56,259 --> 01:59:59,220
It means,
"this is your last chance."
1592
02:00:01,100 --> 02:00:03,420
She gives me money for stamps,...
1593
02:00:03,500 --> 02:00:06,381
...but I deliver the letters myself
and keep the money.
1594
02:00:27,343 --> 02:00:31,983
What class of a demon would torment
her own kind with a letter like that ?
1595
02:00:32,023 --> 02:00:35,584
It's truly awful.
1596
02:00:35,664 --> 02:00:37,184
What's up with Mrs Hannon ?
1597
02:00:37,264 --> 02:00:40,304
That old bitch Finucane sent her
a threatening letter. Look.
1598
02:00:40,384 --> 02:00:42,865
People who write letters
like that should be boiled in oil...
1599
02:00:42,945 --> 02:00:45,705
...and then have their fingernails
pulled out by blind people.
1600
02:00:47,985 --> 02:00:49,906
That's great.
Thanks very much. Next, please.
1601
02:00:51,386 --> 02:00:53,346
I'm sorry for their troubles,...
1602
02:00:53,426 --> 02:00:56,906
...but there's no other way for me to save
the money for the trip to America.
1603
02:00:59,907 --> 02:01:02,347
If the whole of Ireland
was dying of hunger,...
1604
02:01:02,427 --> 02:01:05,187
...I wouldn't touch this money
in the post office.
1605
02:01:05,307 --> 02:01:08,628
Thanks, John.
Listen here to me, men.
1606
02:01:08,708 --> 02:01:10,548
Listen a second.
1607
02:01:10,588 --> 02:01:13,388
This is my nephew here, Frankie McCourt,
the son of Angela Sheehan,...
1608
02:01:13,468 --> 02:01:15,308
...the sister of my wife,
having his first pint.
1609
02:01:15,388 --> 02:01:17,629
Here's to your health
and long life, Frankie.
1610
02:01:17,669 --> 02:01:20,869
May you live to enjoy the pint,
but not too much, eh ?
1611
02:01:26,590 --> 02:01:29,110
Slow down, slow down.
1612
02:01:29,150 --> 02:01:31,670
Don't drink it
all at once.
1613
02:01:31,750 --> 02:01:37,271
In Mountjoy jail
one Monday morning
1614
02:01:37,351 --> 02:01:42,112
High upon
the gallows tree
1615
02:01:42,192 --> 02:01:46,872
Kevin Barry
gave his young life
1616
02:01:46,912 --> 02:01:51,113
For the cause
of liberty
1617
02:01:54,113 --> 02:01:59,233
Just a lad
of 18 summers
1618
02:01:59,273 --> 02:02:01,834
And no...
1619
02:02:10,115 --> 02:02:12,955
What kind of state
is that to come home in ?
1620
02:02:17,156 --> 02:02:19,076
Up, boys, up !
1621
02:02:19,156 --> 02:02:21,476
The Red Branch Knights !
1622
02:02:21,516 --> 02:02:23,876
The Fenian men !
1623
02:02:23,916 --> 02:02:26,077
The glorious I.R.A. !
1624
02:02:26,117 --> 02:02:28,797
I can't believe you.
It's your father you've become.
1625
02:02:28,837 --> 02:02:30,797
Tonight...
1626
02:02:34,318 --> 02:02:36,198
Tonight, I had
me first pint.
1627
02:02:36,238 --> 02:02:38,838
You should be
ashamed of yourself.
1628
02:02:38,918 --> 02:02:41,118
My first pint
with Uncle Pa.
1629
02:02:41,158 --> 02:02:43,159
Uncle Pa should know better.
1630
02:02:43,239 --> 02:02:46,519
No father around
to get me my first pint.
1631
02:02:46,599 --> 02:02:49,199
Your father was no good
to anyone, and neither are you.
1632
02:02:49,279 --> 02:02:51,199
You're just like him,
you drunken feck !
1633
02:02:51,279 --> 02:02:56,400
I'd rather be like my father
than like your Laman Griffin !
1634
02:02:56,480 --> 02:02:58,680
Mind your tongue.
You're drunk.
1635
02:02:58,760 --> 02:03:02,001
Mind your own tongue.
1636
02:03:02,081 --> 02:03:04,601
You and Laman Griffin !
1637
02:03:05,961 --> 02:03:08,962
You slut !
1638
02:03:09,002 --> 02:03:11,562
You've a mouth on you worse than
your drunken eejit father !
1639
02:03:11,642 --> 02:03:14,562
Better to be like
my drunken eejit father than like...
1640
02:03:14,642 --> 02:03:17,963
...that fat, disgustin' shite
Laman Griffin,...
1641
02:03:18,003 --> 02:03:20,323
...who you crept up to every night
there back at Rosbrien !
1642
02:03:20,363 --> 02:03:23,763
- Shut up !
- Laman Griffin. Laman Griffin.
1643
02:03:23,843 --> 02:03:26,323
Up in the loft
with Laman Griffin !
1644
02:03:26,404 --> 02:03:28,324
Squeak, squeak, squeak,...
1645
02:03:28,364 --> 02:03:30,764
...with fat Laman Griffin
rollin' on top of you !
1646
02:03:30,804 --> 02:03:33,804
- Shut up ! Shut up !
- You fuckin' shut up, you slut !
1647
02:04:04,488 --> 02:04:08,008
My child. Tell me what troubles you.
1648
02:04:10,289 --> 02:04:13,769
- I'm 16 today, Father.
- Mm-hmm ?
1649
02:04:13,809 --> 02:04:17,249
- I drank my first pint last night.
- Yeah.
1650
02:04:19,250 --> 02:04:21,450
I hit my mother.
1651
02:04:23,090 --> 02:04:25,130
God help us.
1652
02:04:28,331 --> 02:04:30,211
But He will forgive you.
1653
02:04:31,411 --> 02:04:33,451
Is there anything else ?
1654
02:04:33,491 --> 02:04:35,371
I can't tell you, Father.
1655
02:04:35,411 --> 02:04:38,612
Would you like
to go to confession ?
1656
02:04:38,652 --> 02:04:41,572
I... I can't, Father.
1657
02:04:41,652 --> 02:04:45,413
- I did terrible things.
- Well, you can tell St. Francis.
1658
02:04:45,493 --> 02:04:47,413
You can tell St. Francis.
1659
02:04:49,053 --> 02:04:52,733
We'll sit here, and you can tell
St. Francis...
1660
02:04:52,813 --> 02:04:55,214
...all the things
that trouble you.
1661
02:04:58,774 --> 02:05:03,855
I tell St. Francis
about Margaret, Oliver, Eugene.
1662
02:05:05,175 --> 02:05:07,055
He treads
the upper...
1663
02:05:08,855 --> 02:05:11,496
My father singing "Kevin Barry"
and bringing home no money.
1664
02:05:14,256 --> 02:05:17,016
My father sending
no money from England.
1665
02:05:17,096 --> 02:05:20,137
Theresa on the sofa.
1666
02:05:20,217 --> 02:05:23,537
My terrible sins
of interfering with myself,...
1667
02:05:23,617 --> 02:05:25,617
...wankin' all over Limerick
and beyond.
1668
02:05:25,657 --> 02:05:26,857
What do you want ?
1669
02:05:26,937 --> 02:05:29,778
The Christian Brother who
closed the door in my face.
1670
02:05:30,938 --> 02:05:33,058
The tears in Mam's eyes
when I slapped her.
1671
02:05:38,379 --> 02:05:42,139
A... A...And I give her me back
this morning, Father,...
1672
02:05:42,219 --> 02:05:46,460
...even though it's me birthday
and she offered me a cup of tea.
1673
02:05:49,220 --> 02:05:51,980
Ego te absolvo
apeccatis tuis.
1674
02:05:52,060 --> 02:05:56,221
In nomine Patris, et Filii,
et Spiritus Sancti. Amen.
1675
02:05:56,261 --> 02:06:00,341
Say three Our Fathers,
three Hail Marys and three Glory Bes.
1676
02:06:02,301 --> 02:06:05,262
But what about Theresa Carmody
in hell, Father ?
1677
02:06:05,342 --> 02:06:08,062
No, my child,
surely she is in heaven.
1678
02:06:08,102 --> 02:06:12,183
You don't think the sisters in the
hospital let her die without a priest ?
1679
02:06:12,223 --> 02:06:14,463
- Are you sure, Father ?
- I am.
1680
02:06:14,543 --> 02:06:16,503
God forgives you,
and you must forgive yourself.
1681
02:06:16,543 --> 02:06:18,823
God loves you,
and you must love yourself.
1682
02:06:18,903 --> 02:06:22,904
For only when you love God and yourself
can you love all God's creatures.
1683
02:06:35,265 --> 02:06:37,625
Thank you, St. Francis.
1684
02:06:58,468 --> 02:07:00,868
Mrs Finucane.
1685
02:07:00,908 --> 02:07:02,908
It's Frank.
I have your sherry.
1686
02:08:24,358 --> 02:08:26,518
All the names are here.
1687
02:08:26,598 --> 02:08:28,878
Me Mam.
two pounds for Christmas.
1688
02:08:28,958 --> 02:08:31,399
Aunt Aggie.
nine pounds.
1689
02:08:31,479 --> 02:08:33,479
Maybe for
my post office clothes.
1690
02:08:33,559 --> 02:08:36,599
Bridey Hannon forointment
for Mr Hannon's legs.
1691
02:08:36,679 --> 02:08:41,760
Mrs Purcell, Clohessy,
Quigley, Molloy.
1692
02:08:41,840 --> 02:08:45,720
Everyone I know and half of the poor
of Limerick are here.
1693
02:08:45,800 --> 02:08:49,081
They allowed
the old bitch money.
1694
02:08:49,161 --> 02:08:51,441
Well, not anymore.
1695
02:09:09,883 --> 02:09:12,603
Not to America,
not by plane.
1696
02:09:12,683 --> 02:09:15,404
I can put you
on a ship, though,...
1697
02:09:15,444 --> 02:09:18,324
...that leaves Cork in a couple of weeks.
The Irish Oak.
1698
02:09:18,404 --> 02:09:21,684
That'll cost you 55 pounds.
Do you have it ?
1699
02:09:23,605 --> 02:09:25,725
I do.
1700
02:09:27,685 --> 02:09:31,806
And as he was
leaving his mother
1701
02:09:31,886 --> 02:09:35,606
Standing upon the quay
1702
02:09:35,646 --> 02:09:39,326
She threw her arms
around his waist
1703
02:09:39,406 --> 02:09:42,647
- And this to him didsay
- Here you are.
1704
02:09:42,727 --> 02:09:44,207
Everybody now.
1705
02:09:44,247 --> 02:09:49,128
A mother's love's
a blessing
1706
02:09:49,208 --> 02:09:53,648
No matter
where you roam
1707
02:09:53,688 --> 02:09:57,288
Keep her while she's living
1708
02:09:57,368 --> 02:10:01,529
You'll miss her
when she's gone
1709
02:10:01,569 --> 02:10:05,649
Love her
as in childhood
1710
02:10:05,729 --> 02:10:09,250
Though feeble, old and grey
1711
02:10:09,330 --> 02:10:13,610
For you'll never miss
a mother's love
1712
02:10:13,690 --> 02:10:16,691
Till she's buried
beneath the clay
1713
02:10:16,731 --> 02:10:19,451
Fair play to you, Angela.
That was mighty.
1714
02:10:19,491 --> 02:10:22,451
Well, Frankie, your bladder must be
very close to your eye.
1715
02:10:22,491 --> 02:10:24,932
This night is turning into
a proper wake altogether.
1716
02:10:25,012 --> 02:10:26,012
Is there any possibility...
1717
02:10:26,092 --> 02:10:28,532
of somebody singing something
to liven up the proceedings...
1718
02:10:28,572 --> 02:10:30,252
before I'm driven to drink
from sadness ?
1719
02:10:30,332 --> 02:10:32,172
- Oh, I forgot !
- What ?
1720
02:10:32,252 --> 02:10:34,213
The eclipse.
The moon is having an eclipse tonight.
1721
02:10:34,293 --> 02:10:36,213
- What's an eclipse ?
- Come on, all of you.
1722
02:10:36,293 --> 02:10:38,653
We'd look a right shower of eejits
if we missed that.
1723
02:10:48,574 --> 02:10:50,935
What's gonna happen ?
1724
02:10:51,015 --> 02:10:54,295
This is a very good sign
for you going to America, Frankie.
1725
02:10:54,335 --> 02:10:59,096
It's a bad sign. I read that the moon
is practicing for the end of the world.
1726
02:10:59,136 --> 02:11:01,296
End of the world,
my arse.
1727
02:11:18,098 --> 02:11:20,578
Would you look at that !
1728
02:11:26,179 --> 02:11:29,699
- Well, isn't that somethin' ?
- Wow ! Isn't that grand ?
1729
02:11:31,859 --> 02:11:34,540
- It's beautiful.
- We might never see that again.
1730
02:11:34,620 --> 02:11:37,060
Not in our life time,
anyway.
1731
02:11:41,220 --> 02:11:43,301
Was that it, then ?
1732
02:11:46,661 --> 02:11:49,261
'Tis only the beginning
for Frankie McCourt.
1733
02:11:49,341 --> 02:11:54,102
He'll be back in a few years with a new
suit and fat on his bones like any Yank.
1734
02:11:54,182 --> 02:11:57,942
Anda lovely girl with pearly white
teeth, and her hangin' from his arm.
1735
02:11:58,022 --> 02:11:59,623
I know, Pa.
1736
02:12:03,783 --> 02:12:06,463
Come on back inside, Angela,
and we'll have a drop of sherry.
1737
02:12:10,624 --> 02:12:13,944
- Good luck in America, Frankie.
- Good luck to you.
1738
02:12:36,307 --> 02:12:38,467
Good luck to ya, Frankie.