Hamilton, Hugo <br/><br/>
The speckled people :  a memoir of a half-Irish childhood 
/ Hugo Hamilton 
 - 1st ed 
 - London  : Fourth Estate  , c2003. 
 - 298 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0007149980 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Hamilton, Hugo---Childhood and youth
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelists, Irish---20th century----Biography<br/>Nationalists---Ireland---Family relationships<br/>Refugees---Family relationships---Ireland<br/>Germans---Ireland---Family relationships
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Dublin (Ireland)---Social life and customs<br/>Dublin (Ireland)---Languages
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 HAM