Deirdre Byrnes, PhD (University College Dublin), is Senior Lecturer in German at the National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published extensively on Monika Maron, including the monograph Rereading Monika Maron: Text, Counter-Text and Context (2011). Jean E. Conacher, PhD (University of Aberdeen), is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of Limerick. Her research focuses on GDR/post-1989 literature and film; she is currently completing a monograph on transformation and education in GDR literature. Gisela Holfter, PhD (Universität Köln), is Senior Lecturer in German and Joint Director of the Centre for Irish-German Studies at the University of Limerick. In 2017 she published (with Horst Dickel) An Irish Sanctuary: German-speaking Refugees in Ireland 1933-1945.