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The island of Ireland is occupied by the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. There have been numerous conflicts through history, but now there is peace. The tricolor flag of Ireland was created in 1848. The orange stands for Irish Protestants, green for Irish Catholics and white stripes for the hope of peace between the two groups. Dublin is the capital of the Republic of Ireland, where 40% of the nation's population lives. There are approximately 1 million inhabitants living in Dublin. Belfast is the second largest city and the largest in Northern Ireland with approximately 300,000 people. The population of Ireland in 1800 was almost twice as large as the US. In 2000, the population of the US was more than sixty times that of Ireland. Many surnames starts with "O" which means "the grandson of ..." and many with "Mac" which means "son of ..."
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. There is a great deal of information for those who may find themselves in Ireland in an article in the March 2008 issue of Hadassah Magazine authored by Alan M. Tigay. Some of the highlights are included on this page.
Jews of Ireland were quite active from 1880 to the end of
the 1940s. There are (in 2008) about 1,200 known
Jews. Jews appeared, as indicated in the "Annals of
Innisfallen" - a chronicle of medieval Irish history in 1079
when it was noted that "five Jews came from over the sea with
gifts to Taridelbach (King of Munster) and then were sent back
again over the sea? Between the 12th and 18th century, small numbers of Jewish refugees from Spain and Portugal, came and went but by the beginning of the 19th century, the Jewish community numbered only three families. More Jews emigrated to Ireland in the 1820s from England, Germany and Poland, but the biggest Jewish impact on Ireland in the mid-19th century came from one man who never lived there - Baron Lionel de Rothschild, the first Jew elected to the British House of Commons. Rothschild contributed "a sum far beyond the joint contributions of the Devonshires, and Herefords, Lansdownes, Fitzwilliams and Herberts, who annually drew so many times that amount from their Irish estates" according to an article in the Dublin newspaper of the time. In 1880, Dublin's Jewish community numbered 450 and were mostly quite prosperous. In 1900, Dublin had more than 3,000 Jews with smaller numbers living in Cork, Belfast, Limerick, Waterford and Londonderry. Lithuanian Jews began arriving in 1881. Many became peddlers, petty traders and moneylenders "credit drapers and "weekly men" in the local parlance, according to Alan Tigey. Some of these immigrants got their "five pound stake" from the Hebrew Philanthropic Loan Society. The second generation moved up the occupational ladder, as Jews became a major force in the manufacture of clothing and furniture. Ireland also had a President of Jewish descent, Erskine Childers. One of his ancestors was a 16th century Sefardic refugee. Actor Daniel Day-Lewis' mother was an English-Jewess who bore him in London, but he became a citizen of Ireland in 1993. 1901 Northern Ireland Census
The following site is useful
Archives
National Archives - in Dublin Belfast
If you like
digging for information, and have an interest in Jewish Belfast
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. 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 Briscoe, Robert and Ben Robert, in the 1950s served as Dublin's mayor and was succeeded a generation later by his son, Ben. Robert also smuggled arms for the Irish Republican Army. 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.
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://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list Cemetery Information and Funeral Chapel
http://www.cyndislist.com/cemetery.htm
Chaim Herzog
Israel's sixth president was born at 185 Clifton Park Avenue,
Belfast, in 1918. Chief Rabbi of Ireland
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. 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 or 353 87 234 1274. The Orthodox
synagogue, which is over 110 years old (built in 1896), still holds services and
there is a Jewish cemetery still in use. The exterior appears to
be of a lavender colored stone structure with three arched
doorways, while the interior includes a central wooden Bima and
a wraparound women's gallery and a skylight. Only one
service a month is scheduled Cork's Jewish immigrant families clustered in the Hibernian Buildings, a squat row of brick dwellings with sloped roofs and fat chimneys along Albert Road, located south of the town center. There have been no Jews living here for at least after 1970 though there is a Shalom Park directly in front of the Hibernian Buildings. Dublin 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. "Little Jerusalem" area - less than a mile south of central Dublin and was once the home of the very early Jews. Jews lived and worked on the streets and lanes off the South Circular Road and Clanbrassil in buildings that are mostly neat rows of two-story, and brick Victorians and one story laborers' cottages. There are two former synagogue buildings remaining in the "Little Jerusalem" area, though both are now office buildings. The Adelaide Road Synagogue at 37 Adelaide Road is a Moorish-Victorian structure with high arched windows and doorways. It functioned until 1999 and the congregation moved to the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. There is also remaining the former Greenville Hall shul at 228 South Circular Road with its Greek style columns and arched windows. In 1900, Dublin had more than 3,000 Jews. In 2008 there are an estimated 1,300 Jews and another 400 scattered around the country. In Dublin, they have moved from the Grand Canal area to the south Dublin neighborhoods of Terenure, Rathmines and Rathgar.
Knesset Orach Chayim (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: Dublin
Machzikei Hadass Congregation - Rathmore Villas, Rear 77
Terenure Road North, Dublin 6. Mr. D. Ross Phone: 353 1
4938991. Orthodox Traditional Dublin
Terenure Hebrew Congregation - Rathfarnham Road, Dublin 6 Mr.
Michael Gilbert, President. Rabbi's Office Phone: 353 1
4972351. The congregation is the largest in the city and follows
Orthodox tradition and has Ireland's only Mikve. Mansion House - residence of the city's Lord Mayor. The building is located on Dawson Street, just off St. Stephen's Green. Familia A
web-based directory of family history resources held in public
libraries in the UK and Ireland. Updated and
maintained by the Family History Task Group of the EARL
Consortium, Familia is the on-line starting place to find
information about materials in public libraries which will help
you trace your family history 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. Stuart
Rosenblatt P.C. Irish Jewish Museum The
second floor houses a former synagogue which is virtually
unchanged as a sanctuary of the former Great Synagogue that
seated upwards of 100 at a sitting. Located at 3 Walworth
Road and is a former synagogue; Phone 353 1 490 1857 IrishJIG Subscribe to IrishJIG, the Irish Jewish Interest Group at http://www.irishjewishcommunity.com/outreach.htm 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 Jewish Home of Ireland
Danmark Hill Leinster Road Dublin 6 Mary Bartlett
http://www.haruth.com/JewsIrelandTribeStPatrick.html Jewish Ireland
The website of the Irish Jewish Community http://homepage.eircom.net/~researchers/index.html Jews of Ireland Genealogy Page
Community History, Synagogues information, Cemetery information,
Research information, a database and much more 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
National Gallery of Ireland Located on Merrion Square West; Phone 353 1 661 5133 if full of works on Hebrew Bible themes. Public Records Office in Dublin
Records were destroyed in a fire in 1922 Trinity College Library The oldest college
in Ireland and the library holds over 200,000 leather bound
books Phone: 353 1 896-1661 UK and Ireland Genealogy
A large collection of genealogical information
pages for England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Channel
Islands and the Isle of Man
Note: Please let me know if there is a favorite link of yours that is not included in my site and I will be happy to add it to Jewish Web Index |
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