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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Frank and his friends regularly go to a rocky, hilly landscape in the wilderness and [[ADateWithRosiePalms wank]] off next to each other (but apparently not 'with' each other). Being Catholic, they have to confess their sins. It helps that the old priest is mostly deaf and doesn't really pay attention to a word they said -- until one day Frank slides into the booth all set to confess and finds a new and very alert priest there; the other one had died during the night.

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* CaughtWithYourPantsDown: Frank and his friends regularly go to a rocky, hilly landscape in the wilderness and [[ADateWithRosiePalms wank]] wank off next to each other (but apparently not 'with' each other). Being Catholic, they have to confess their sins. It helps that the old priest is mostly deaf and doesn't really pay attention to a word they said -- until one day Frank slides into the booth all set to confess and finds a new and very alert priest there; the other one had died during the night.

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* AlliterativeTitle: '''A'''ngela's '''A'''shes
* AnimatedAdaptation: In 2017, ''Brown Bag Films'' made a half hour prequel called ''Angela's Christmas''. About a child Angela stealing a baby Jesus statue so she can keep it warm.

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* AlliterativeTitle: '''A'''ngela's '''A'''shes
'''A'''shes.
* AmericansAreCowboys: Some boys taunt Frank in the playground for being American, asking if he's a gangster or a cowboy.
* AnimatedAdaptation: In 2017, ''Brown Bag Films'' made a half hour prequel called ''Angela's Christmas''.''WesternAnimation/AngelasChristmas''. About a child Angela stealing a baby Jesus statue so she can keep it warm.
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* IllGirl:
** Theresa Carmody, who suffers from a terminal case of tuberculosis.
** Patricia Madigan
** Margaret [=McCourt=], who dies in early infancy.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Angela and Malachy only married because they conceived Frank during a one-night stand, and are constantly plagued by Malachy's drinking, inability to hold a job, their resultant poverty, and their disapproving families. While the pace of children entering the family suggests they were, uh, happy ''enough'' in their [[InsatiableNewlyweds earlier years]], Frank describes them as constantly unhappy and stressed until Malachy finally gave up and abandoned the family when Frank was eleven. The film gives them a couple of softer moments, but they still appear to be overall resentful and miserable.

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* AwfulWeddedLife: Angela and Malachy only married because they conceived Frank during a one-night stand, and are constantly plagued by Malachy's drinking, inability to hold a job, their resultant poverty, and their disapproving families. While the pace of children entering the family suggests they were, uh, happy ''enough'' in their [[InsatiableNewlyweds earlier years]], Frank describes them as constantly unhappy and stressed until Malachy finally gave up and abandoned the family when Frank was eleven. The film gives them a couple of softer moments, moments together, but they still appear to be overall resentful and miserable.



* ThereAreNoTherapists: Quite literally - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in the United States in 1935, but there were no major programs in Ireland for chronic alcoholism, save for hospitalization - which would have not only been extremely unpalatable to the whimsical Malachy Sr, but would have likely put the family into even worse financial straits.

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* ThereAreNoTherapists: Quite literally - Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in the United States in 1935, but there were no major programs in Ireland at the time for chronic alcoholism, save for hospitalization - which would have not only been extremely unpalatable to the whimsical Malachy Sr, but would have likely put the family into even worse financial straits.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: Angela and Malachy only married because they conceived Frank during a one-night stand, and are constantly plagued by Malachy's drinking, inability to hold a job, their resultant poverty, and their disapproving families. While the pace of children entering the family suggests they were, uh, happy ''enough'' in their [[InsatiableNewlyweds earlier years]], Frank describes them as constantly unhappy and stressed until Malachy finally gave up and abandoned the family when Frank was eleven. The film gives them a couple of softer moments, but they still appear to be overall resentful and unhappy.

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* AwfulWeddedLife: Angela and Malachy only married because they conceived Frank during a one-night stand, and are constantly plagued by Malachy's drinking, inability to hold a job, their resultant poverty, and their disapproving families. While the pace of children entering the family suggests they were, uh, happy ''enough'' in their [[InsatiableNewlyweds earlier years]], Frank describes them as constantly unhappy and stressed until Malachy finally gave up and abandoned the family when Frank was eleven. The film gives them a couple of softer moments, but they still appear to be overall resentful and unhappy.miserable.

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