1. Live in New York
1.1. Move back to Ireland
1.1.1. family goes to Malachy's family
1.1.2. Take the bus to Dublin
1.1.2.1. To collect money rom the IRA
1.1.2.1.1. the man refuses to give money
1.1.2.1.2. Have no money to take a bus back home
1.1.2.1.3. sleep in the police barracks
1.1.2.1.4. Police give enough money for train tickets to Limerick
2. A typical miserable Irish Catholic childhood
2.1. Alcoholic father
2.2. No money
2.3. Catholic faith
3. Father Malachy
3.1. Grows up in the North
3.2. Sings old patriotic songs to Frank
3.3. Drinks and loses jobs
3.4. Spends his earned money in pubs
3.5. Pride
3.6. Die for your country
4. Mother Angela
4.1. Grows up in Limerick
4.2. Has a miscarriage
4.3. smoker
5. Margaret
5.1. Daughter
5.1.1. Malachy stops drinking
5.1.2. Margaret dies
5.1.2.1. sets Angela in a depression
5.1.2.2. Malachy starts drinking again
6. Oliver
6.1. Younger brother
6.1.1. Becomes ill
6.1.2. and dies
6.1.2.1. Malachy all of his money on drinking
7. Eugene
7.1. dies of pneumonia
7.1.1. Angela get's pills for her nerves
7.1.2. Malechy drinks himself into a stupor
7.1.2.1. On the day of the funeral Frank has to get his father from the pub.
7.1.2.2. After the funeral, Frank and his last brother eat fish and chips
8. Malachy
9. Michael
9.1. is born
9.1.1. Angel of the seventh step
9.1.2. get's sick
9.1.2.1. is saved by his father sucking the snot out of his nose. (he couldn't breath)
10. Religion
10.1. Attend Mass at Christmas
10.2. Attend Mass at Easter
10.2.1. Frank get's frustrated by what he doesn't understand
10.2.2. and his fatther won't answer his questions
10.2.2.1. "When you become older you'll understand evertything."
10.3. Frank's first communion
10.3.1. eats the Communion wafer
10.3.2. Mikey is not a "proper" catholic because he couldn't swallow the communion wafer
10.4. He listens to an inproper story and feels this is a sin
10.4.1. First Confession
10.4.1.1. the priest is amused by the story
10.4.1.2. Absolves all his sins
10.4.2. Second Confession
10.4.2.1. Frank had trouble swallowing the Wafer
10.4.2.2. He puked in the backyard
10.4.2.3. Gets denied to go to the cinema but sneeks in anyway
10.5. Malachy wants Frank to become an altar boy
10.5.1. because of class snobbery Frank gets turned down
11. Alphonsus
11.1. Is saved from chocking on a dried milk ball
12. Life in Limerick
12.1. Miscarriage
12.1.1. Needs to go to the hospital
12.2. Malachy doesn't make enough money
12.2.1. Angela goes to the de Paul Society for charity
12.2.2. Women there are suspicious of Angela and her American/Yankee children
12.2.3. Become welcoming after hearing the fate of her miscarriage
12.3. Angela collects the money
12.3.1. otherwise Malachy will just spend it on drinking
12.4. Frank starts going to school
12.4.1. hard place where you "must not cry"
12.4.2. Teacher was mean spirited
12.4.2.1. always making children cry
12.4.3. His teacher says it's a glorious thing to die for the Faith
12.5. move to house on Roden Lane
12.5.1. The lavatory is built next to the house and it stinks very badly
12.5.2. House get's flooded. So the family moves upstairs
12.6. Christmas
12.6.1. Angela goes to the butcher for meat
12.6.1.1. all she can afford is a pig's head
12.6.1.2. Frank's classmates see the meat and laugh
12.6.2. Frank, Malechy (jr) and their father collect leftover coal
12.6.2.1. landlord of the pub gives them real coal
12.6.2.2. they carry the bag in the rain
12.7. Welfare society turn up
12.7.1. Angela asks the men for boots
12.7.1.1. Malachy "Never beg like that"
12.7.1.2. His pride
12.7.1.2.1. Frank makes his children boots from old tire
12.7.1.2.2. classmates tease the boys
12.8. Frank get;s a new teacher called Mr. Benson
12.9. Angela and Malachy must get their teeth removed
12.9.1. Malachy jr puts the false teeth in as a joke
12.9.2. But they get stuck and has to get rushed to the hospital
12.9.2.1. The doctor sees Frank breathing through his mouth and says that Frank needs to have his tonsils removed
12.10. Angela tells Frank he has to take dancing lessons every Saturday
12.10.1. He doesn't like his first lesson
12.10.2. He spends the money for the second lesson on going to the movies
12.10.2.1. When he tells his parents about the lesson, he invents his own dances
12.10.2.2. His father gets suspisious and finds out. He needs toe confess his sins.
12.11. three years pass, Frank is now in the fourth form by Mr. O'Neill
12.11.1. Mr. O'Neill gives his apple peel to the boy who can answer a difficult question
12.11.1.1. One day Fintan, a goody twoshoes, gets the apple peel. and shares it with frank and two other boys.
12.11.1.2. Fintan invites Frank and Paddy to his home, promising food.
12.11.1.2.1. Fintan's mother serves milk and sandwiches
12.11.1.2.2. The boys are worried however because Fintan goes with them to the bathroom and says he enjoys looking a them
12.11.1.3. Fintan invites the boys to lunch a few days later. But they don't get any food
12.11.1.3.1. Angry they skip school to steal apples from a nearby farm
12.11.1.3.2. A friend of Frank sees him and tells his parents are going to kill him
12.12. Frank stays at Paddy's
12.12.1. Paddy's father lies in bed coughing snot in a bucket
12.12.1.1. Next morning Angela turns up at Paddy's and feels sorry for the father because they have known eachother.
12.12.2. Pour home
12.13. Father Malachy continues to drink te dole away
12.14. Frank need to help his Uncle Pat deliver newspapers. Uncle Pat mistreats Frank however
12.14.1. Frank delivers the paper to a man named mr. Timoney, a well read, well-traveled mans
12.14.1.1. Contrast between the teachers and the freethinking of mr. Timoney
12.14.1.1.1. Mr. Timoney introduces Frank to a book by Jonathan Swift. A satire where Frank can relate with.
12.14.1.2. Frank gets a job reading to mr. Timoney
12.14.1.2.1. Angela is thrilled that Frank has two jobs
12.14.2. Declan insults Uncle Pat
12.14.2.1. Mr. Timoney helps out frank and Uncle Pat
12.14.2.1.1. As some time passes Mr. Timoney is pronounced demented
12.15. Father Malachy uses the money from the Grandfather for Alphonsus to drink
12.15.1. Angela sends the boys to search for their dad
12.15.1.1. Frank steals a man's fish and chips
12.15.1.1.1. He feels guilty an confesses right away
12.15.1.2. Frank finds his father singing in a pub at night. he is angry but calms down beacause of the look in his fathers eyes
12.16. Hatred of the English is talked about among the children
12.17. Peter Dooley offers to let Frank, Billy and Mickey watch his sisters naked
12.17.1. Mikey climb the drainpipe but falls down
12.17.2. The mother of Peter finds out and tells Angela to let frank go to confession
12.17.2.1. Angela won't let her son go to confession before his Confirmation
12.18. Frank is confirmed afterwards Frank get's a nosebleed and is to sick to make his collection
12.18.1. The doctor diagnoses frank with typhoid fever
12.18.2. Frank goes to the hospital
12.18.2.1. Frank's father visits him and kisses him on his forehead for the first time, which makes hime very happy
12.18.2.2. Frank meets a girl named Patricia and Seamus, an old man who cleans the hospital
12.18.2.2.1. Patricia introduces Frank to Shakespear
12.19. Frank gets better and returns home where he finds out he has to repeat his fifth year.
12.19.1. Frank writes an essay that impresse Mr. O'Dea to let him pass to the sixth year
12.20. Families in their street are getting welthier because they fight in WW2 in England
12.20.1. Frank's father decides to go to England as well to work in a munition factory
12.20.1.1. Angela promises the boys an egg on every Sunday. A luxury unimaginable to Frank
12.20.1.2. However Malachy never sends money to the family
12.21. Frank needs to go to the hospital because of his infected eye
12.21.1. There he sees Seamus an mr. Timoney.
12.21.2. When he returns he learns his father has "gone mad with the drink"
12.22. Angela gets sick and calls out for lemonade
12.22.1. Frank steals two bottles outside a pub
12.22.2. He steals more food from the rich part of town
12.22.2.1. They go door to door asking for fuel but they have to resort to stealing fuel from rich backgardens
12.22.3. The doctor diagnoses her with pneumonia and needs to go to hospital
12.22.3.1. The boys go to Aunt Aggie to stay with her
12.22.3.1.1. Aggie hits the boys. Frank writes to his father. Malachy returns to look after his children. He moves to England again as soon as Angela gets better
12.23. Angela is beggin for food outside the church, this saddens Frank greatly
12.24. Frank starts a soccer team. He got inspired by an old red dress of his mother. He cut the dress into uniforms for the soccerteam which he called "The Red Hearts of Limerick"
12.24.1. He learns that his parents were wed only six months prior of his birth.
12.24.2. The boys win a game of soccer against a group of rich boys
12.25. Mickey Molloy turns 16 and gets his first pint in the pub. Franks joins them and gets a lemonade.
12.25.1. Frank asks Mickey what it means to be born that early. Micky tells him he is doomed because he is a bastard
12.25.1.1. Because of this dininely win Frank is convinced his soul is not doomed
12.26. Frank starts delivering coal to his neighbor, Mr. Hannon
12.26.1. Frank feels manly because of his job
12.26.1.1. Some boys from school even get jelous and ask for a good word at the coal yard
12.26.2. Mr. Hannon is kind to Frank and tells him to go to school and read
12.26.3. Frank's eyes get irritated by the coal dust and has to stop
12.26.3.1. Mr. Hannon's legs get worse. He gets hospitalized.
12.26.3.2. Mrs. Hannon tells Frank he was like a son to Mr. Hannon. Frank cries after hearing this
12.27. Malachy returns for Christmas one day later than promised with a half-eaten box of chocolates
12.27.1. Sheep's head for dinner
12.27.2. After the dinner Malachy leaves again
12.28. The family takes in pour women, old men and sick animals from time to time
12.29. Angela is 4 weeks late on rent there is no money
12.29.1. The family has to burn one of the inernal walls for firewood. they leave the beam that is supporting the roof. but one day wehn it is freezing they take it out, resulting in the roof collapsing
12.29.1.1. They get kicked out of their home and they have to live with Angela's cousin
12.29.1.2. Frank wants to cycle with his friends, but he doesn't own a bike. He makes a deal with Laman to let him borrow his bike.
12.30. Frank's teacher Mr. O'Halloran convinces Angela that her son is intelligent and should continue school instead of work
12.30.1. The postoffice supervisor offers Frank a promotion as Telegam messenger.
12.30.2. His teacher tells him to go to America
12.30.3. One day Frank forgets to do a chore he made the deal for and gets into a fight with Laman. Frank leaves the house and stays with Uncle Sheehan
12.31. Angela sends Michael to fetch Frank. It pains Frank to see his brother in broken shoes and ripped clothes
12.31.1. Uncle Ab refuses to give Frank food. Frank steals food from wealthy houses. He feels guilty afterwards
12.32. When Frank turns 14 his Aunt Aggie takes him clothes shopping
12.32.1. Frank starts working at the post office as a temporary worker
12.32.1.1. when he gets his first pound he takes out his brother for food and a film. he decides to save up money every week so he can finance his trip to America
12.32.2. He gives a telegram to the mother of someone he knew. She has become far welthier than as she began
12.32.3. He helps out the sick when he is working
12.32.4. He meets a girl named Theresa Carmody who takes care of Frank's injuries after a fall from his bike.
12.32.4.1. they have sex
12.32.4.2. Frank goes to see Theresa for weeks
12.32.4.3. Theresa gets hospitalized and dies the next week
12.32.4.4. Frank is worried for het soul
12.33. Frank has to deliver a condolence telegraph to an Englishman, mr. Harrington, who has lost his wife. He forces Frank to drink sherry.
12.33.1. As mr. Harrington leaves to get more alcohol. Frank is worried about Harrington's wife, who is a protestant. Frank decides to baptize her with the sherry
12.33.1.1. Mr Harrington finds out and stuffs a ham sandwich in Franks mouth.
12.33.1.2. Mr. Harrington tells the post office and gets Frank fired. But the priest calls in and gets Frank rehired
12.33.1.3. Frank decides to work for a protestant newspaper
12.34. On the night of his 16th birthday, Frank goes to the pub for his first pint. Because Malachy isn't around, Pa Keating is taking Frank.
12.34.1. Frank gets drunk and wants to confess before he turns 16.
12.34.1.1. He gets sent away because he is so drunk
12.34.2. He goes home and picks a fight with Angela about Laman. He slaps her in anger.
12.35. Frank goes to church where he is angry and sad at everything that has happend to him. A priest talks with him about it
12.36. He sells a bunch of articles that are seen unfit for the public. He saves 8 pound and spends one pound on his depts and a big dinner for his family
12.36.1. Frank becomes the senior boy
12.36.2. Malachy jr works at a wellthy Catholic private school but gets fired and moves to England
12.37. Frank works three more years at Easons and writing letters for Mrs. Finucane. The woman dies and Frank takes 57 pounds from her purse and trunk. He clears all people's dept from her book
12.37.1. Frank has enough money for the trip to New York
12.37.2. He tells his mother, who cries after hearing the news
12.37.3. The family throws a party before Frank's departure
12.37.4. On board Frank gets homesick and remenisens about his family.
12.38. He goes to Manhattan. The ship rerouts to Albany. Frank gets invited to a party with a group of women
12.38.1. "Isn't this a great country alltogether?"
12.38.1.1. "Tis."