Dublin Community

Created: 25 August 2005
Latest revision or update:30 November 2011

Dublin (Irish: Baile Átha Cliath) is the capital city of the Republic of Ireland and the largest city of Ireland, located nearly half way down the island’s east coast, at the mouth of the river Liffey. Although geographically part of County Dublin, the City of Dublin has had a separate administration for several centuries. Although the City of Dublin has a population of about half a million, there are well over one million people in the Greater Dublin area.

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The Dublin Jewish Community would appear to have been established shortly following the readmission of the Jews in the 1660's, and is thus the second oldest community in the British Isles. The first community was of Spanish and Portuguese (Sephardi) origin, but these element died out and were replaced by Ashkenazi Jews.

The following congregations are, or were, considered to be part of the Dublin Community:

The following are former, alternative or unofficial names for some of the above congregations:

Adelaide Road Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation
Beth Hamedresh Hagadol Synagogue - see Walworth Road Synagogue
Chevra Tehillim Synagogue - see Lombard Street Synagogue
Crane Lane Synagogue - see Dublin's Old Hebrew Congregation
Dolphin's Barn Synagogue - see Dublin United Hebrew Congregation
Greenville Hall Synagogue -see Dublin United Hebrew Congregation
Grosvenor Road Synagogue - see Rathmines Hebrew Congregation
Knessett Orach Chayim - see Dublin Jewish Progressive Congregation
Marlborough Green Synagogue - see Dublin's Old Hebrew Congregation
Mary's Abbey Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation
Stafford Street Synagogue - see Dublin Hebrew Congregation

Articles on the Dublin Community

The Rise of Provincial Jewry - Dublin by Cecil Roth, 1950.
Available on JCR-UK as part of the Susser Archive.

Jewish Encyclopedia article on Dublin by Joseph Jacobs and Isidore Harris, c-1906.

Cemetery Information

Ballybough Jewish Cemetery, Fairview Strand, Dublin
Article - "5618 and All That" (PDF file) and Photographs
For Database - see above

IAJGS - International Jewish Cemetery Project - Dublin

Jewish Population Data

1895
1909
1915
1944
1946
1955
1965
1975
1976
2004
2006

- 2,000 (The Jewish Year Book 1896/7)
-  2,700 (The Jewish Year Book 1910)
-  3,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1916)
-  3,500 (The Jewish Year Book 1945-6)
-  5,211 (The Jewish Year Book 1947)
-  5,200 (The Jewish Year Book 1956)
-  3,600 (The Jewish Year Book 1966)
- 2,800 (The Jewish Year Book 1976)
- 2,100 (The Jewish Year Book 1977)
- 1,790 (The Jewish Year Book 2005)
- 1,500 (The Jewish Year Book 2007)

Other Dublin Information

Bibliography and other sources

Ireland Home Page

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