![]() ![]() His father never allows him to speak English and insists the family use the Gaelic form of their last name (Ó hUrmoltaigh), which many of their neighbors can't even pronounce. Yet Hamilton is in many ways more Irish than they. Other children call him "Kraut" and "Nazi" and taunt him with "Sieg Heil!" salutes. With an Irish father and a German mother, Hamilton comes to Ireland as a boy in the 1950s and finds a homeland that will never fully accept him. Hamilton's father says they are speckled, breac ![]() ![]() "I know what it's like to lose, because I'm Irish and I'm German," explains Hamilton in this beautiful memoir of a mixed childhood in the years after WWII. ![]()
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