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Story Notes
This bilingual documentary tells the story of how Dublin-born Hugo Hamilton, once Johannes O hOrmoltaigh, made sense of his own story and went on to become a novelist and short story writer, and most recently the author of his just published memoir - The Speckled People.
Produced by Clíodhna Ní Anluain
"Becoming Hugo Hamilton" was first broadcast on 19th March 2003.
An Irish radio documentary from RTÉ Radio 1, Ireland - Documentary on One - the home of Irish radio documentaries