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Published by Mercier Press, Cork, 2005, a detailed study of what became known as the Limerick Boycott , that started when incendiary speeches by a Redemptorist priest, Fr John Creagh, stirred up a wave of anti-Semitic feeling and violence, and which culminated in a boycott of the Jewish community in Limerick city, most of whom worked as cloth merchants and drapers.
illustrated throughout, and making great use of contemporary newspaper reports , and court reports.
Large format paperback, Mercier