An Irish Sanctuary

Gisela Holfter, University of Limerick, Ireland; Horst Dickel, Wiesbaden.

"This is an important book that manages to be both highly informative and, at times, very affecting. [...] now undoubtedly the definitive account of German-speaking refugees in Ireland during the Nazi period. Any lingering questions on this topic have now been fully answered." Fergal Lenehan, Dublin Review of Books, 1 December 2017



"This important book [...] corrects the assumption that small numbers of arrivals meant a small effect, or that small numbers required little effort. [...] [it] makes a compelling and timely case for widening and deepening the Irish historical narrative to include those who became part of our society during a time of crisis - and those who helped them." Derek Scally, How Ireland failed refugees from Nazi Germany, Irish Times, 4 February 2017



"Gisela Holfter and Horst Dickel have produced a comprehensive account of the German speaking refugees who came to the Republic of Ireland prior to the outbreak of war. Over 400 pages densely packed with people, places and facts it is a marvellous reference guide, where the refugees came from, how they arrived in Ireland and how they survived the war years." Glynn Douglas, The Friendly Word, September-October 2017, Volume 34, Issue 5, pp. 6-7



"This book, by two pre-eminent scholars of Irish-German relations, will no doubt be seen in future as the seminal work on the subject of German-speaking refugees in Ireland [...] Holfter's and Dickel's research into the life and work of this small band of refugees draws on an impressive array of archival and other sources and their book is meticulously researched and footnoted." Prof Charmian Brinson (Imperial College London), AJR, vol 17/no 10, October 2017, pp. 10-11.



"Holfter und Dickel haben ohne Zweifel das grundlegende Werk zum deutschsprachigen Exil der 1930er und 1940er Jahre in Irland geschrieben, sie haben eine Gesamtdarstellung vorgelegt, die an Grund- und