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A Guide to Tracing your Dublin Ancestors by James G. Smith, Brian Ryan and Brian Smith.
This book is dedicated to Dublin and is ideal to take on your research to Dublin.
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Families of County Dublin by O'Laughlin
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Extensive book looking at the families of Dublin and the History of Dublin spanning over 256 pages.
Dublin Burial Ground and Graveyards by Vivien Igoe
Graveyards provide a interestinglink to the past. This Book shows us what we can find and where to look for information.
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Hugo Hamilton's book "The Speckled People: A Memoir" is an aoto biography by novelist Hugo Hamilton about his childhood in Dublin. "Speckled People" was a phrase used by Hugo's father to describe people who are, in his father's words, "the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else." Ireland, never mind Dublin, is full of speckled people as many of us discover when we search for our ancestors.
I quote a few lines from the synopsis . .. 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.
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Christopher
I have just finished reading this book. It proved very informative and I found it absorbing. A little bit of a world now long gone !!
Erin
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Hugo Hamilton's book "The Speckled People: A Memoir" is an aoto biography by novelist Hugo Hamilton about his childhood in Dublin. "Speckled People" was a phrase used by Hugo's father to describe people who are, in his father's words, "the new Irish, partly from Ireland, partly from somewhere else." Ireland, never mind Dublin, is full of speckled people as many of us discover when we search for our ancestors.
I quote a few lines from the synopsis . .. 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.
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Another memoir of 1930's Dublin which may be of interest
Erin
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Hello.
This is my first time joining RootsChat. I was searching for leads to books about Dublin as I have written a book about my parents, Barney and Molly Duffy, who for most of their married life lived at 147 Leighlin Road Crumlin. My book covers 100 years of family history. I see you have recommended other books. May I modestly ask that you check out mine!
See full details of the book at;
http://ogmapress.com/barneyandmolly.htm
see a slide show of photos from the book at;
http://www.duffyberlin.com/DuffysWeb.html
Thanks.
Martin Duffy
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Hello Martin,
Welcome to RootsChat.
I had a look at the Links thread on your website.
I was interested to see that you have worked with a couple of guys from Belfast ...
Diarmuid Lavery and Mike Hewitt and worked on a documentary with them called "Belfast Boxers."
Chris