Tag: Jewish Cemetery
Fairview & Marino on Urban Secrets
Marino and Fairview featured in Sky Atlantic TV Series “Urban Secrets”
Transmission: Sky Atlantic: Thursday 16 August 2012 @ 8PM
Emmy-nominee and OBE, Alan Cumming will host Urban Secrets, an eight-part TV series (every Thursday @ 8pm on Sky Atlantic) that will take viewers on a journey visiting influential urban areas including Dublin.
The Marino / Fairview sequence was filmed in [...]
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Tags: Bram Stoker, dracula, Jewish Cemetery, Marino Casino, Urban Secrets
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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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Fairview & Marino: history 1
Fairview and Marino
Passing beyond the old city boundary at Ballybough Bridge, one of the first objects of interest is the Catholic parish Church of Fairview, which is a little more than half a century old. The building which was its predecessor, previously a Dominican Convent, is on Fairview Strand, a little beyond Fairview Avenue. This [...]
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Tags: charlemont, clonturk, Fairview, fionnradharc, Haverty, history, Jewish Cemetery, Marino, stair
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Fairview
Fairview (or Fionnradharc as Ghaeilge) is a district on the Northside of Dublin, Ireland, in the jurisdiction of Dublin City Council. It is part of Dublin 3.
Location and access
The district is bordered to the southwest by the River Tolka and East Wall, to the west by North Strand, to the north by Marino, on the [...]
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Tags: clonturk, dracula, Fairview, fionnradharc, Jewish Cemetery, park, Philipsburgh
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