Ireland

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IRELAND. The earliest evidence of Jewish settlement in Ireland is a grant made in 1232 to a certain Peter de Rivall, giving him “custody of the King’s Jews in Ireland.” In 1290, Irish Jews, like their English brethren, were expelled from Ireland and did not return until around 1655, the days of Oliver Cromwell and the Commonwealth. It was then that the first Sephardic community was founded in Dublin; Jewish settlement in Ireland has been small but continuous ever since.

In 2006, most of Ireland’s 1,200 Jews live in Dublin, the capital city. They are mostly shopkeepers and tradesmen. The clothing and furniture industries were introduced into Ireland by Lithuanian immigrants. Dublin, with its two large and four small synagogues, its charitable organizations, and Talmud Torah, is the center of religious and cultural life of Irish Jewry. More than half of Northern Ireland’s Jews live in the capital city of Belfast, whose present Jewish community was founded in 1870. An earlier Jewish community was founded there a century before, but later dissolved.

Synagogues

Cork Hebrew Congregation 10 South Terrace Cork Orthodox Tel: 353-21-4870413 Fax: 353-21-4876537

Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation 7 Leicester Avenue Dublin 6 http://www.liberaljudaism.org Mail djpc@liberaljudaism.org

DUBLIN Hebrew Congregation 32a Rathfarnham Road Terenure Crossroads Dublin 6 West Traditional http://www.jewishireland.org/

Jewish Museums

Irish-Jewish Museum http://www.jewishireland.org/museum.html