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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood

by Hugo Hamilton

Format:  Quality Paperback
Published:  May 2004
Category:  Ethnic Cultures - General
Publisher:  Fourth Estate
Pages:  298

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We wear Aran Sweaters and Lederhosen. We are forbidden from speaking English. We are trapped in a language war. We are the Speckled People.' In one of the most original memoirs to emerge in years, Hugo Hamilton tells the haunting story of his German-Irish childhood in 1950s 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 an

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