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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811458603321

Autore

Holfter Gisela M. B.

Titolo

An Irish sanctuary : German-speaking refugees in Ireland, 1933-1945 / / Gisela Holfter, Horst Dickel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; Boston : , : Walter de Gruyter, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

3-11-039575-4

3-11-035145-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 pages)

Classificazione

NQ 2530

Disciplina

305.7/310941709043

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Ireland

World War, 1939-1945 - Refugees - Europe, German-speaking

Refugees - Ireland - History - 20th century

Exiles - Ireland - History - 20th century

Germans - Ireland - History - 20th century

Austrians - Ireland - History - 20th century

Jews - Ireland - History - 20th century

Europe, German-speaking Relations Ireland

Ireland Relations Europe, German-speaking

Ireland Ethnic relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Part I. Passages to Ireland -- The distant option : German refugees to Ireland, 1933-1938 -- "Those days in Vienna ..." -- The Jews of Komotau -- The German pogrom and after -- The routes of the refugees : Italian passages to Ireland -- Part II. Exiled in wartime Ireland -- The state, the helpers and the refugees -- Uncharted terrain : German-speaking refugees in the Irish provinces -- Continental Dubliners -- Academics in exile -- Transit lives -- Part III. After the war -- Refugees revisited -- Personal recollections and autobiographies -- Index of names -- Index of places.

Sommario/riassunto

The monograph provides the first comprehensive, detailed account of German-speaking refugees in Ireland 1933-1945 - where they came



from, immigration policy towards them and how their lives turned out in Ireland and afterwards. Thanks to unprecedented access to thousands of files of the Irish Department of Justice (all still officially closed) as well as extensive archive research in Ireland, Germany, England, Austria as well as the US and numerous interviews it is possible for the first time to give an almost complete overview of how many people came, how they contributed to Ireland, how this fits in with the history of migration to Ireland and what can be learned from it.While Exile studies are a well-developed research area and have benefited from the work of research centres and archives in Germany, Austria, Great Britain and the USA (Frankfurt/M, Leipzig, Hamburg, Berlin, Innsbruck, Graz, Vienna, London and SUNY Albany and the Leo Baeck Institutes), Ireland was long neglected in this regard. Instead of the usual narrative of "no one was let in" or "only a handful came to Ireland" the authors identified more than 300 refugees through interviews and intensive research in Irish, German and Austrian archives. German-speaking exiles were the first main group of immigrants that came to the young Irish Free State from 1933 onwards and they had a considerable impact on academic, industrial and religious developments in Ireland.