Dublin Nazi No. 1: The Life of Adolf Mahr

By Gerry Mullins

In the 1930s, Dr Adolf Mahr was head of the National Museum of Ireland, where he earned the title 'the father of Irish archaeology'. He was also the head of the Nazi Party in Ireland, and was dubbed 'Dublin Nazi No. 1'. Under pressure from Irish and British military intelligence, he left for Germany shortly before the outbreak of war in 1939, never to return. To this day, he is considered in some circles to have been a spy who used his position at the museum to help prepare Germany's invasion plan of Ireland. During the war, he became director of Irland-Redaktion, the German propaganda radio service that broadcast into neutral Ireland. He was later arrested and tortured by the British, and upon his release tried to return to Ireland, but to no avail. He remains one of the most controversial figures in twentieth-century Irish history.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Liberties Press
• Release date: Apr 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781909718081

Reviews for Dublin Nazi No. 1

[thegeneral_1 · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A well-written and researched book. It is interesting to see the extent by which Germans occupied several prominent positions in post-WW2 Ireland due to the reluctance to recruit British industrialists/engineers/scientists etc. Mahr sticks out as someone who wasn't allowed back to Ireland for political reasons. His family enjoyed their time in Ireland and the life of Germans in the years after the fall of Hitler, with the alleged collaboration between the allies to starve and pauperize Germany, is well worth highlighting and worthy of further research.