I am currently playing a Lawful Good Hill Dwarf Cleric in a DnD 5e campaign. The campaign is Princes of Apocalypse and I do not find information about how they interact with other races in there. Dwarves have a reputation of hating goblins and orcs, as well as the stereotype being that they seldom make friendships with short-lived races, but I have not found anything more in-depth.
For example in my group there is a Firbolg (from Volo's guide) Druid character. I do not know how to use the Dwarvish stereotype to inform how I roleplay my relationship with that character, apart from being suspicious.
So my actual question is where can I find information on how dwarves are depicted interacting with other races in general, especially those with whom there are historical grievances in the lore? Are there some useful guides out there, or lore in other books? (Maybe in previous editions, if 5e is incomplete.)
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The Princes of the Apocalypse adventure takes place in the Forgotten Realms by default, so I'm going to base my answer on that setting. If your DM has significantly changed that default, some of the following may not apply.
The 5th edition Player's Handbook has a sidebar for each of the common races with a brief description of the common attitude of that race towards each of the other basic races. This helps in the case of elves, halflings, and humans, but not firbolgs.
The Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide has a section on each of the races from the PH, and may give some insight into the general attitude of dwarves, but the book focuses less on interracial interaction and probably won't help much.
Volo's Guide to Monsters is the only 5e source of information about firbolgs that we have. Unfortunately, the firbolg section only mentions elves and gnomes, if I remember correctly, and makes no reference to dwarves.
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes has an entire chapter about dwarves, including significant treatment of dwarven attitudes and outlooks. While it doesn't detail their views on every race, it could provide enough foundational material to let you make significantly more informed guesses.
As for pre-5e materials, I'm afraid I'm only personally familiar with one novel that has a firbolg, one of the Cleric Quintet novels by R. A. Salvatore. In it, the protagonist and his two dwarven friends run into a firbolg. The dwarves have an inkling of dislike for the firbolg due to the race's relation to giants, but they remind themselves that firbolgs had also sided with dwarves in the past against evil giants, and so were willing to look past the lineage and treat him about the same as they would a human.
It is important to note that while dwarves have been portrayed fairly consistently in Forgotten Realms materials for some time, firbolgs underwent significant changes in 5e compared to older editions, and looking at old material for specific interracial preconceptions may be less useful than extrapolating details from current general information on 5e lore, such as that found in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes.