CONTENTS: Curtain Rise: Locating the «Father of the Misery Memoir» – «I’d Love To Be Irish When It’s Time For A Song» – «Are ye Gangsters or Cowboys? […] Fred Astaire How Are You?»: The Effect of Hollywood Cinema on Frank McCourt’s Irish-American Male Identity – Melodramatic Moments: McCourt’s Debt to Dion Boucicault and Seán O’Casey – Frank McCourt’s Performance of «Irishness»: The Anxiety of James Joyce’s Influence? – The After-Lives of Angela’s Ashes – Curtain Fall