Summary: <p>Comparisons are invidious, but Hugo Hamilton is clearly a successor to the late Frank McCourt, author of the celebrated “Angela’s Ashes,” in the tradition of Irish memoir. </p> <p>Hamilton read from his book, “The Speckled People,” as part of the <a href="http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096">PEN World Voices Festival</a> on May 3. The event was held at Ireland House, a handsome mews building off Washington Square Park that is home to NYU’s Irish studies department. Hamilton was introduced by John Waters, head of the university’s Irish literature program.</p>
