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355English Abstracts dent received widespread attention, as the public grappled with the event’s lethal mix of nineteenth-century progress and Ireland’s seemingly ancient religious quarrels, which many cited as the real reason for the derailment. This chapter examines media responses to Trillick and its legal aftermaths, showing how Catholic leaders attempted to mobilize public support by focus- ing attention on controversial Orange anti-Catholic public figures, who had been among the passengers on the derailed »Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway«. The increasingly common response to atrocity that underscored its allegedly religious dimensions both reflected and strengthened emerging sectarian narratives that played such a critical role in reshaping late Victorian Irish politics. Richard Hölzl Missionaries as Victims of Muslim Violence? The Fabrication, Communication and Impact of Narrative Patterns during the Colonial War on the East African Coast, 1888/1889 In January 1889, local resistance fighters destroyed a mission station near the East-African city of Dar es Salaam, murdering or kidnapping several people among its religious personnel. After the incident became known in Germany, a narrative was developed that portrayed the violence as a case of religious antagonism and in terms of Muslim opposition to Christian anti-slavery activities. German government officials, including Chancel- lor Otto von Bismarck, seized on and consolidated this narrative during parliamentary debates on the allocation of additional budgets to finance a mercenary army for the invasion of East Africa and begin a process of for- mal colonization. This chapter examines social relations around the Catho- lic mission station of Pugu immediately before the attack and analyses the violence exerted against it. It retraces the communication of the incident in Catholic media and its subsequent discussion in parliament as well as its influence on official decision-making. This chapter argues that attending to the circulation of narratives of (religious) violence is crucial to explaining the reproduction of violent action in colonial settings. It is also central for understanding the shift from indirect German colonial activity to direct German colonialism.