Hugo Hamilton - How to Belong

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Shot in Ireland and Germany, this documentary reflects on author Hugo Hamilton's dual identity and how this shaped his award-winning memoir ‘The Speckled People’.

The book told a heartbreaking story of life as a child in a household torn apart by the “language wars”, with a German mother who fled after the Second World War and a fanatical Gaelgoir father. 

Television Documentary // 60 Mins // Funded by BAI / TG4 // Loopline Film

Producer : Vanessa Gildea // Director : Martina Durac