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Title: Apateon Press Publishes The Irish Telegram Boy by Thomas A. McCluskey

NEW YORK—September 16, 2026—Apateon Press today announced the publication of The Irish Telegram Boy: A Memoir by Thomas A. McCluskey. The book tells the story of a boy raised to believe he was, in his family's words, a “good-for-nothing,” and the decades-long journey that led him to prove otherwise.Born into poverty in a Dublin tenement in 1944, McCluskey grew up in a large, quarrelsome Irish Catholic household marked by an absent father, a mother unable to show him warmth, and the daily indignities of poverty. At sixteen, he emigrated alone to New York, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, the wounds of his childhood followed him through difficult jobs, a failed first marriage, a second marriage and fatherhood, and years of escalating alcoholism. The memoir opens at his lowest point, lying paralyzed at the bottom of his basement stairs after a night of drinking, his body failing from decades of heavy smoking and drinking, and a near-fatal accident the next day that finally convinced him something had to change.“I spent most of my life believing I was the family screwup and trying to prove I wasn't,” said McCluskey. “Writing this book meant going back into rooms I had spent decades trying to forget, like the tenement in Dublin and the basement on Long Island, but then, on to the church basements where I finally got sober. I want readers who are still fighting their own version of that fight to know it is possible to come out the other side.”The Irish Telegram Boy moves from Dublin tenements to the streets of Queens, from a first marriage that collapses under the weight of drinking and financial strain to a second marriage and family life that mask a worsening addiction. Through therapy, Alcoholics Anonymous, and a hard-won faith, McCluskey co...

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