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.