Dr Fergal Lenehan (BA and MA UCD, PhD Leipzig, Habilitation Jena) is based at the University of Jena, Germany, where he is a full-time researcher at the project ‘ReDICo: Researching Digital Interculturality Co-operatively’, which is financed by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research. His comparative study of intellectual discourses on Europe in Ireland, Britain and Germany, Intellectuals and Europe (Trier 2014), is a key contribution to this under-researched field.