Tag: 5618
History of the Jewish Cemetery
On the 28th of October 1718, Alexander Felix (David Penso), Jacob Do Porto, and David Machado Do Sequeira, on behalf of the Ashkennazim leased a plot of land in Ballybough from Chichester Phillips of Drumcondra Castle.
Situated on present day Fairview Strand - this plot of land measuring “half a rood and five perches” or roughly [...]
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Tags: 5618, cohen, gravestone, history, Jewish Cemetery, jews
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History of the Jews in Fairview & Marino
The first Jews to come to Ireland in significant numbers were Morano Jews, that is to say Jews who readily converted to Christianity but practised their Jewish faith assiduously. These Jews came from Spain and Portugal and were believed to have fled the Inquisition. Within a few years there were enough Jews to found a [...]
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Tags: 5618, Annadale, Cromwell, history, Jewish Cemetery, jews, Philipsburgh Avenue
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History of Fairview from “5618 and all that”
The little village of Fairview which until the end of the 18th Century was known as Ballybough, has down the years seen the coming and going of many varied groups, sects, landowners, scholars, farmers, industrialists, law enforcers, wayfarers and colourful characters.
Croydon Park House at the top of Fairview Avenue (now Richmond Avenue) was once the [...]
Posted: 08:18 PM under Community.
Tags: 1916, 5618, bombing, Bram Stoker, Clontarf Island, Cromwell, Dean Swift, dracula, Esmonde, floods, glass, history, James Joyce, jews, Joyce, Suicides Plot, Thomas Clarke
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