Chapter 1. The Distant Option – German Refugees to Ireland, 1933–1938

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. List of Images X
4. Acknowledgements XII
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Passages to Ireland
7. Chapter 1. The Distant Option – German Refugees to Ireland, 1933–1938 13
8. Chapter 2. “Those days in Vienna...” 31
9. Chapter 3. The Jews of Komotau 63
10. Chapter 4. The German Pogrom and After 76
11. Chapter 5. The Routes of the Refugees: Italian Passages to Ireland 92
12. Part II. Exiled in Wartime Ireland
13. Chapter 6. The State, the Helpers and the Refugees 99
14. Chapter 7. Uncharted Terrain – German-speaking Refugees in the Irish Provinces 153
15. Chapter 8. Continental Dubliners 228
16. Chapter 9. Academics in Exile 270
17. Chapter 10. Transit Lives 348
18. Part III. After the War
19. Chapter 11. Refugees Revisited 365
20. Bibliography 407
21. Index of Names (main text) 438
22. Index of Places 448