Relations between the two countries have described, in 2011 by Ruairí Quinn, then Irish Minister for Education: "Ireland and Germany have enjoyed an excellent long-standing political and economic relationship, and culture, mutual trust and common values have always been at the core of our relations", going to on add further that "When the first hydro-electric Shannon scheme was established, it was a very deliberate decision, a very cultural assertion of separation from London, to invite Siemens to provide technical assistance.

For example, the commander-in-chief of the imperial forces in the Thirty Years' War, Albrecht von Wallenstein, was assassinated in 1634 in Eger by the Irish captain Walter Deveroux.

[3] In later warfare during the Jacobite uprisings, the German-born army commander Friedrich von Schomberg fell in the Battle of the Boyne in eastern Ireland in 1690.

The German Richard Cassels (1690-1751) worked as a successful architect in Ireland, while the Dublin-born William Thomas Mulvany (1806-1885) earned great merit in the Industrialisation of the Ruhr.

This also influenced the awakening of Irish national consciousness at a time when the country was part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

Éamon de Valera was the only head of government in the world to condole with the German embassy after Adolf Hitler's suicide in 1945.

After considerable adjustment difficulties, the following years saw a sustained economic upswing, largely by European structural funding, with Germany as one of the main net contributors.

The joint membership of Ireland and Germany in the European Union has made relations between both states intensifiy in recent decades.