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One of the more obscure, and tragic, stories of Easter Week concerns Abraham Weeks (sometimes also known as “Wix”), a London Jew on the run who found himself in Dublin just as Easter Week was beginning. Weeks was not the first Jew to fight for Irish freedom.
One of the more obscure, and tragic, stories of Easter Week concerns Abraham Weeks (sometimes also known as “Wix”), a London Jew on the run who found himself in Dublin just as Easter Week was beginning. Weeks was not the first Jew to fight for Irish freedom.
History of the Jews in Ireland A Jewish wedding party outside Ireland's Waterford Courthouse in 1901. Jews have made their home in Ireland for centuries, and many have risen to be successful and prominent figures in politics, business, and theology. Ireland produced Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of Israel, and Leopold Bloom - the hero of James Joyce's "Ulysses," a canonical Irish text - is a Jew. However, the Irish Jewish community can hardly be called thriving, and Jews have not always been welcomed in this predominantly Catholic country. During the Holocaust, Ireland denied refuge t...
Brian Hanley 32 min read During July 1921 Count George Noble Plunkett, Dáil minister for foreign affairs, wrote a long letter to Ãamon de Valera. In it Plunkett warned the Sinn Féin leader that republicans should be wary of too close a relationship with âthe Jewsâ. Across Europe, Plunkett asserted, Jews had been a negative influence, because (1) they are, and will remain, aliens, in most countries; (2) their codes of honour and morals are not Christian; (3...