I’ve found a few interesting immigrants living in Dublin in 1911 thanks to the great National Archive of Ireland (NAI) census website.
– A Swedish ‘Masseur’ by the name of Kent Magnus Lindeberg living with his Scottish wife and Dublin born daughter in 19 Upper Leeson Street.
– Norweigian born Carl Ludwig Dybing, an Adjutant in the Salvation Army, living with his English wife Clara Dybing in 3 Mountpleasant Parade, Rathmines.
– A 63 year old ‘hairdresser and perfumer’ by the name of Mathias Greiveldinger Prost from Luxembourg who lived with his Cork born wife and six children at 24 St. Stephen’s Green.
– There was only one Dutch person living in Dublin in 1911 and that was Fritz Hintre, a turner, living at 151 Rialto Cottages with his Irish wife and three children.
– There were eight Portuguese, mainly students, living in Dublin and only seven immigrants from Hungary. Three Greeks, none of which had Greek sounding names and seven Danish of at least three were sailors. A sizeable number of 74 Austrians, many of whom were waiters.
I’ll do something on unusual religions tomorrow.
Rathmines, 1911. (thejournal.ie)
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Not quite the same thing, but a neighbour: a few years ago, the daughter of a class-mate of mine did a project for her Leaving Certificate History on the WWI Belgian refugees in Athy.
Great bit of research. How much more would we know it those criminal thugs who ended up running the country hadn’t of burnt the records office in the Four Courts. I know from my own family history that the grandson of a German immigrant ended up porkin’ your woman who ran a travel company and then a irish permanent bank and he never even wore a Bowler, Hat. I think her name was May Haymer (the Grandmother that is)
You probably wouldn’t know much more than if they didn’t take a direct hit by a free-state shell ( the fact that the anti-treatyites were using the office for a magazine probably didn’t help). You have to remember that the years from 1911 to 1921 were revolutionary years where the general public were not telling the exact truth to the authorities. This conception that the evil anti-treatyites burned the records out of sheer spite is actually incorrect and was concocted by the victors as a propaganda tool. The historian Liz Gillis has done extensive research on the subject and writes about it in her book on the Civil War in Dublin :http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dublin-Military-History-Irish-Civil/dp/1856356809.
Had the records not been destroyed we would know far more. The records went back to the 13th century. Whether it was the idiots shooting in or the idiots shooting doesn’t really matter. We ended up in a country run by incompetent thugs who continued in the years after to carry on more acts of destruction. Their latest act of destruction was the economy of the entire country.
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The Leaving Cert student found media coverage at the time was not much different in tone from the media coverage of asylum seekers today.
FXR you hit the nail on the head. History is history. Without the facts we are at the mercy of those who shout the loudest. Since 1922 Dublin has been banjaxed by vested interests who are wrecking our home in the interests of Ireland. Ireland and Dublin are not mutually exclusive. What happened to the four courts is a national disgrace.
I’m sure this fine post would send the racists apoplectic with rage to find ‘furreners’ living here 100 years ago. Shocking it is so it is. Also came across a book written in 1990 about the number of black people living in Ireland from late 1700’s to 1880 or there about. These were slaves obviously and numbered no more than 200 authored by Nini Rogers: Ireland, Slavery and Anti-Slavery: 1645-1865. Might be worth a look and may form part of a future post.
Never saw that book Big Al but it sounds very interesting going on what you say and this review here http://www.irlandeses.org/0711burtonb1.htm
However, it would seem to conflict somewhat with Bill Rolston and Michael Shannon’s book “Encounters how racism came to Ireland”. They speak of how in 1800 Dublin had the second largest black population in Empire (2,000 was number I think), many associated with British army etc.
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