The Frank McCourt Museum is a museum dedicated to the Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Angela's Ashes, Frank McCourt, which is based in Frank's former school in the Georgian Quarter of Limerick City.
History
Leamy House (formerly known as Leamy School) is a tudor-style listed building with an interesting facade, complete with tower, turrets, ornamental chimneys and splendid gargoyles carved in limestone and sandstone, adorning a fine street which is a memorial to one of Limerick’s greatest benefactors, Lady Lucy Hartstonge, wife of Sir Henry Hartstonge, and sister of Edmond Sexton Pery, Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.
The building was erected in 1843 through the munificence of William Leamy who, before he died some years earlier, left a large sum of money in trust for the education of poor Protestant boys. Due to dwindling numbers in 1880, the school became a National School for Catholic boys and thus it continued until 1953.
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