The talk will discuss Ireland and the Jews in history and literature with emphases on such key figures as James Joyce and Dublin Lord Mayor, Robert Briscoe, as well as investigation of Roman Catholic anti-Jewish attitudes in past and present.
Owen Dudley Edwards, FRSE, FRHistS, FSA (Scot) grew up in Ireland, and studied and worked in the USA and Scotland. From 1968 he taught at Edinburgh University (Department of History).
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Yahya Barry began to be interested in religious studies during the final year of college in London. After taking a year out to do voluntary work in Gambia, he completed a number of degrees in Islamic Theology and Religious Studies at universities in Madinah, Mecca, Copenhagen and Uppsala. Currently, he is completing a PhD in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and serves as an Imam at the Central Mosque.
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Edinburgh Jewish Literary Society 