The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood John Galsworthy oil institutions

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The Speckled People: A Memoir of a Half-Irish Childhood John Galsworthy oil institutionsWe 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