Joachim Fischer and Gisela Holfter Irish-German Biographies and Irish-German Studies Michael Cronin John Anster (1793-1867) Catherine Adley William Thomas Mulvany (1806-1885) Ruth Fleischmann Patrick Augustine Sheehan (1852-1913): An Admirer of a Nation that Liberated Itself Joseph P. Cunningham and Ruth Fleischmann Aloys Georg Fleischmann (1880-1964): The Contribution of a German Musician to Irish Choral Music Sacred and Secular Gareth Cox and Joseph J. Ryan Fritz Brase’s Contribution to Irish Musical Life 1923-1940 Jason Begley Thomas McLaughlin, Siemens and the Shannon Scheme Hermann Rasche From Laragh to Berlin: Francis Stuart and His Time in Germany Margaret O’Sullivan Farrell Hans Waldemar Rosen Frank Conlan Margaret Leischner (1907-1970) – A Bauhaus Designer in Newbridge, Co. Kildare Michael Murphy Aloys Fleischmann (1910-1992) Gisela Holfter and Hermann Rasche John Hennig (1911-1986) Hermann Rasche “You feel yourself to be Irish, then?”: Imogen Stuart (*1927), Sculptor Patricia Conlan John Maurice Kelly (1931-1991) – Experiences in Heidelberg and Their Impact on a Multi-Faceted Academic, Lawyer and Politician Rüdiger Imhof John Banville and Germany Thomas Eoin Bourke The Birthmark of Germanness – Hugo Hamilton and the Question of Belonging Notes on Contributors List of Illustrations