The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood
Hamilton, Hugo
The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood / Hugo Hamilton - 1st ed - London : Fourth Estate , c2003. - 298 p. ; 22 cm.
The author tells a story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950's Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.
English
0007149980
Hamilton, Hugo---Childhood and youth
Novelists, Irish---20th century----Biography
Nationalists---Ireland---Family relationships
Refugees---Family relationships---Ireland
Germans---Ireland---Family relationships
Dublin (Ireland)---Social life and customs
Dublin (Ireland)---Languages
92 HAM
The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood / Hugo Hamilton - 1st ed - London : Fourth Estate , c2003. - 298 p. ; 22 cm.
The author tells a story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950's Dublin. His Gaelic-speaking, Irish nationalist father rules the home with tyranny, while his German-speaking mother rescues her children with cakes and stories of her own struggle against Nazi Germany. Out on the streets of Dublin is another country, where they are taunted as Nazis and subjected to a mock Nuremberg trial. Through the eyes of a child, this rare and shockingly honest book gradually makes sense of family, language, and identity, unlocking at last the secrets that his parents kept in the wardrobe.
English
0007149980
Hamilton, Hugo---Childhood and youth
Novelists, Irish---20th century----Biography
Nationalists---Ireland---Family relationships
Refugees---Family relationships---Ireland
Germans---Ireland---Family relationships
Dublin (Ireland)---Social life and customs
Dublin (Ireland)---Languages
92 HAM
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