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EDITORIAL

This was the first bulletin to be produced by the team working on the FAS/Irish Jewish Museum project. By issuing the bulletin we hope to keep you in the community aware of the work we are doing here and to encourage anyone who wishes to become involved at the museum.

The project, which has been running since July 23rd, has two basic aims. The first is to produce a usable catalogue of all the material stored in the museum. As a part of this we hope to run occasional exhibitions on aspects of the museum. The first such will highlight the paintings and portraits on display here.

The second aim the project has is to research the history of Jewish settlement in Ireland. We expect to be concentrating on the settlement in and around Dublin and to this end we hope that the work will involve interviews with members of the Jewish Community.

The course is expected to last at least twelve months. The trainees working on the project will be taught many research skills including Word Processing and report writing. It is hoped also that the trainees will acquire basic preservation and restoration skills.

Another aspect of the course will involve the trainees being taught French as it is actually spoken rather than by grammatical means. (The aim would not be to produce fluent French speakers, but to give the trainees basic conversational skills).

Any help that any individual member of the community can give us in our work would be gratefully received.

Participants in the Irish Jewish museum project are; Co-Ordinator; Eoin Duffy. Assistant Co-Ordinators; Marie Christine Gallonnier and Rosemary Horan.

Research Assistants; James Corrigan, Raymond Farrell, Ross Hackett, Niamh Hayden, Gerard Lysaght, Ronan Mac Aongusa, Mary T. Murphy, Susan Nolan, Francis O'Doherty, Deborah Paget, Damien Walker.

Eoin Duffy
