Re: Mayor of Dublin.

MUCHO MAZEL TO EVERYONE IN THE NEW YEAR AND AS ALWAYS A GUT SHABBOS!!!

Let's try this one again shall we???

Briscoe was the Mayor of Dublin. He was descended from Sephardim and was Jewish. He daughter however became a Nun.

De Valera was also descended from Sephardim. However, his family had become conversos(converted to Catholicism) at least a century before.

During the Spanish, Portuguese and Italian(well parts of Italy, because there was no established Italy for many years)Inquistions, many Sephardim fled into England, Wales, Ireland. and Holland...as well as other areas like Prussia and the Asiatic. So that's almost 300 years of people moving about.

There has been a Jewish Community in various parts of Ireland for at least 250 years if not longer. Especially in Ulster and Dublin. Brendan Behan in THE BORSTRAL BOY, refers to Jews and Mormons.

Many Irish Jews have left Ireland because of the Political and Economic Climate and made aliyah to Israel or gone to Australia.

Signed,

Trudi Goodman LIR(Lepracohen in Residence)

By the Way...that was the name of the group that Statman and Denaan(I'm sure that I haven't spelled that right) put together THE LEPRACOHENS. I remember seeing them perform as such at the Berklee Music Center almost 20 years ago! AND THEY ROCKED!!!

>From: Dan Peck

>Reply-To: jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org

>To: World music from a Jewish slant

>Subject: Re: Mayor of Dublin.

>Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2002 19:09:26 -0500

>Robert Briscoe was a Jewish importer/exporter in the early 20th

>century in Ireland. He was instrumental in supplying arms to the

>Irish rebels during the years leading to the Easter rebellion and

>the subsequent war that led to the creation of the Irish Free State

>in the early 1920's. He was later the Lord Mayor of Dublin, a

>ceremonial post distinct from the actual mayor. His son Benjamin was

>also appointed Lord Mayor years later.

>Eamon DeValera was an American-born Irish/Spanish Catholic. He was

>one of the leaders of the insurgent forces after the Easter

>Rebellion. He divorced himself from the faction that accepted the

>partition of Ireland. He was later elected Prime Minister and kept

>Ireland neutral during WW II.

>Briscoe was quite popular, but DeValera was always a controversial

>figure.

>>Robert Brisco

>>Eamon De Valera was a catholic.

>>On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Lesley Draper wrote:

>>> I believe the Jewish Mayor of Dublin wa , Eamon De Valera, I

>>>don't know the

>>> exact date but was early 1900 to the thirties.He played a role

>>>in the

>>> Irish revolution.Was very much liked by not only Dubliners, but

>>>many other

>> > Irish. Ben

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