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News that tourists have started showing up in Susan Boyle's hometown of Blackburn in Scotland reminds me of what happened with the Frank McCourt phenomenon from an earlier era.

These days in Limerick, Ireland you will still meet American tourists every summer following the McCourt trail, the places mentioned in his book “Angela's Ashes.”

Well over a decade after the book was published it has now become one of Limerick's biggest tourist attractions