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Most of Ireland's present Jewish community dates from the late 19th century when Jews from Lithuania fleeing pogroms arrived in Dublin, Belfast, Limerick and Cork.  Today, it is estimated that there are some 1,000 Jews living all over Ireland - mostly in Dublin.

1901 Northern Ireland Census - the following site is useful http://proni.nics.gov.uk/records/1901cens.htm#intro

Subscribe to IrishJIG, the Irish Jewish Interest Group at http://www.irishjewishcommunity.com/outreach.htm 

Jewish Ireland, the website of the Irish Jewish Community
www.irishjewishcommunity.com  

http://homepage.eircom.net/~researchers/index.html

Most of the original Dublin families' marriage records of Marys Abbey from 1845 from Camden Street Shul were recently discovered in Roscommon.  The Irish Jewish Genealogical Society has 23,400 names on file covering the 32 counties including birth, burial and marriage records from 1845 to 2000.
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/ireland/dublin.htm

Archives - National Archives - in Dublin 
http://www.natinalarchives.ie/ 

 Annesley Street Synagogue    "Belfast" - a article authored by Phyllis Ellen Funke describing The Jewish Traveler in Belfast, was published in the Hadassah Magazine of November 2003. 

The article discusses the first Jewish resident , Manuel Lightfoot, who was a tailor in 1652.  The earliest Jewish birth registered is that of the son of Meir Levy in 1849.  On July 7, 1871, with only a small Jewish population of an estimated 50, a stone was laid on Great Victoria Street that became the synagogue, Hebrew school and clerical residence.  On February 26, 1904, a second synagogue at Annesley Street and Carlisle Circus was established.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_
Jews_in_Northern_Ireland

There were some 205 Jews in Belfast, five in Londonderry and others elsewhere in Ireland, making a total of 282 Jews by 1891. In 1896, the Belfast Hebrew Ladies Foreign Benevolent Society was formed. 

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/vjw/Ireland.html

Belfast Synagogue - 49 Somerton Road, Belfast BT15 3LH  Contact Aaron Engelmeir Phone 44 2890 775013
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/Community/Belfast/index.htm

British Newspaper Library Catalogue - offers over 50,000 newspaper and periodical title holdings in Colindale.  The catalogue includes all UK national daily and Sunday newspapers from 1810 to the present; most UK and Irish provincial newspapers, some from the early 18th century upwards; selected newspapers from around the world in western and Slavonic languages dating from the 17th century upwards, including extensive holdings from Commonwealth countries and many other nations, and a wide range of UK and Irish popular periodicals coverall subjects from fashion, pop music, and cinema, to sports, hobbies and trades. 
http://www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/  

for further information or for the site itself 
www.bl.uk/collections/newspaper/newscal.html

The British Library - Newspaper Library - Colindale Avenue, London, NW9 5HE, United Kingdom - Telephone: +44 (0) 20 7412 7353  Fax: +44 (0) 20 7412 7379 E-mail: newspaper@bl.uk
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list

Chaim Herzog, Israel's sixth president was born at 185 Clifton Park Avenue, Belfast, in 1918.
http://www.ulsterhistory.co.uk/chaimherzog.htm

Chief Rabbi of Ireland is Yaakov Pearlman who left a congregation in Rochester, New York to work with the 1,400 Jews living in Ireland.  The rabbi is a native of Manchester, England and was once the youngest rabbi in Britain at age 20.  He and his wife, will live in Dublin.
http://tinyurl.com/6h2frr

Cork - sometimes called the "Venice of Ireland" due to the various branches of the River Lee that flows into its Harbor and the footbridges around the city.  There is a Jewish Community though small in size.  Cork is the second largest city in the Republic after Dublin. In the early 20th century, the Jewish community counted almost 500 souls, but the population has since dwindled to 20-30 Jews out of a total population of 135,000 mostly because of intermarriage.

Cork Hebrew Congregation - 10 South Terrace, Cork Mr. Fred Rosehill, Chairman of Trustees Phone: 353 21 4870413.  The Orthodox synagogue, which is over 110 years old, still holds services and there is a Jewish cemetery still in use.
http://www.jewishgen.org/JCR-UK/Ireland/cork1_hc/index.htm

Dublin -Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation - 7 Leicester Avenue Rathgar, Dublin 6 For service times or for further information please email djpc@liberaljudaism.org or call +353 87 2303435 Web site:
www.liberaljudaism.org

Dublin Machzikei Hadass Congregation - Rathmore Villas, Rear 77 Terenure Road North, Dublin 6.  Mr. D. Ross Phone: 353 1 4938991
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/ireland/dublin11_machzikei/index.htm

Dublin Terenure Hebrew Congregation - Rathfarnham Road, Dublin 6 Mr. Michael Gilbert, President.  Rabbi's Office Phone: 353 1 4972351
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/ireland/dublin11_machzikei/index.htm

Help for anything in Ireland:

Stuart Rosenblatt in Dublin has compiled an incredible database of genealogical information about as many Jews living in Ireland as he has been able to collect. He is very responsive to email, is a good source of information.  Of course, as with any genealogical information, the facts he provides should be verified later by other kinds of documentation, but he is a good first source.
http://www.jewishireland.org/genealogy.html

Stuart Rosenblatt P.C. 
The Irish Jewish Genealogical Society
Jasonia Business Centre
76 Dame Street Dublin 2 Ireland
masterc@medianet.ie  
Phone ++353 1 677 3808

Jewish Home of Ireland - Danmark Hill Leinster Road Dublin 6 Mary Bartlett Phone 353 1 4972004
http://www.somethingjewish.co.uk/articles/300_jewish_ireland.htm

http://www.haruth.com/JewsIrelandTribeStPatrick.html

Jewish  Genealogical Society of Great Britain offers many links of value to researching Irish/Jewish ancestors including many links: National Archives of Ireland;  Public record Office for Northern Ireland; UK & Ireland and more at 
http://www.jgsgb.ort.org/info1.htm 

Jews of Ireland Genealogy Page - Community History, Synagogues information, Cemetery information, Research information, a database and much more 
http://homepage.eircom.net/~researchers/index.html

http://homepage.tinet.ie/~researchers

Limerick - contact Dr. S. C. O'Mahony, Director of the Limerick Regional Archives, The Granary, Michael Street, Limerick, Ireland.  Telephone 061 410 7777  Fax: 061 415125
http://www.jewishgen.org/jcr-uk/ireland/limerick/index.htm

Map of Ireland - Click here to view map
http://www.12travel.com/goto/ie_maps/

Public Records Office in Dublin was destroyed in a fire in 1922
http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/research_and_records_held/records_not_held_in_proni.htm

UK and Ireland Genealogy - a large collection of genealogical information pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man
http://www.genuki.org.uk/

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