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The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood by HUGO HAMILTON is a biography available to read on EtoBox.

What is The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood about?

The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place: His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken German emigrant who escaped Nazi Germany at the beginning of the war, encourages them to speak German. All Hugo wants to do is speak English. English is, after all, what the other children in Dublin speak. English is what they use when they hunt down Hugo (or 'Eichmann' as they dub him) in the streets of Dublin, and English

Who reads The speckled people : a memoir of a half-Irish childhood?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
HUGO HAMILTON
Publisher
London ; New York: Fourth Estate
Published
2003
Language
EN
ISBN
9780007705429
Category
biography
Subjects
Literary Fiction, History, Biography
Rating
3.71 / 5 (19 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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