Following in the footsteps of Nobel Laureate Heinrich Bolls 1956 classic Irish Journal, Hugo Hamilton revisits Bolls evocations of 18 places across the island to take stock of the changes that have occurred over the last seven decades in Ireland. Part travelogue, part memoir, part social commentary, and part comic masterpiece, this latest offering from one of Irelands best-selling authors (his memoir The Speckled People, his five novels) is sure to sell in very large numbers. Whereas Heinrich Boll visited St. Patricks Cathedral, a bank managers home in Mayo, the streets and shops of Limerick and the lighthouse on Clare Island, Hugo Hamilton visits the deserted village on Achill Island, Croke Park in Dublin, a barbershop in Limerick, Turlough Park House in County Mayo, a police station in Prague, the church on Clare Island and a classroom in Bucharest.
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Publication Date: 01 Oct 2023
Publisher: IRISH PAGES
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781739353759
About Hugo Hamilton
Hugo Hamilton is a multi-lingual German-Irish Dublin writer who is an expert in his own words at writing from inside and outside partly from here and partly from elsewhere. He is the best-selling author of The Speckled People (4th Estate) a German-Irish memoir which has so far been translated into 15 languages. His unique experience of growing up in Dublin during the 50s/60s with a fervent Irish nationalist father and German mother who came to Ireland in the aftermath of World War Two has found resonance right across the globe. Hailed by many as a masterpiece (Colm Toibin) and an instant classic (Roy Foster) his account of his German-Irish childhood addresses all the great issues of the 20th century (Nuala OFaolain).