Ronan McGreevy for the Irish TImes
Wed Jun 14 2023
Robert Briscoe was a founder member of Fianna Fáil in 1926. He spent 38 years as a Fianna Fáil TD...
... Before the first World War, Briscoe went to stay with his maternal aunt Hedwig Kudesch-Salomon and her husband, Adolph, in Berlin...In the 1930s, Briscoe pleaded with Peter Berry, the then personal secretary to the minister for justice, to take in Jews who wished to flee Nazi Germany ...
... Berry asserted that Jews in Ireland refused to assimilate and created widespread anti-Semitic feeling among the Irish people. He also suggested that “international Jewry” was using financial influence to secure preferential treatment ...
... They didn’t really want Jews. They took in a lot of Nazis after the war. They didn’t want to have anti-Semitic riots...
... part of a TG4 documentary series entitled Tráma Teaghlaigh which tells the story of intergenerational trauma arising out of the Irish Revolution.
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