History of the Jews in Ireland
The history of the Jews in Ireland extends for more than a millennium. The Jewish community in Ireland has always been small in numbers in modern history, not exceeding 5,500 since at least 1891.
Ballybough Jewish Cemetery gate lodge in 2020
The former Jewish school in Bloomfield Avenue, Portobello, Dublin
Jewish wedding at the Waterford Courthouse, early September 1901
Grave of an unknown Jew in Castletroy, Limerick
John Creagh, CsSr was an Irish Redemptorist priest. Creagh is best known for, firstly, delivering antisemitic speeches in 1904 responsible for inciting riots against the small Jewish community in Limerick, as well as, secondly, his work as a Catholic missionary in the Kimberley region of Western Australia between 1916 and 1922.
Photograph of Irish Priest John Creagh, taken 1904.