The Irish and the Jews
A review of Gerry McDonnell’s Lost and Found
Atlanta Jewish Connector, January 4, 2024
In addition to his other writings, Dublin author Gerry Mc Donnell (McDonnell) has produced a unique series of poems, plays, novellas, and essays concerning Irish Jewry. His Lost and Found (Lapwing Publications, 2003), a narrative poem published two decades ago and centering on Mono, a homeless Jewish man living in Dublin’s Phoenix Park, is part of that lifework.
Review — Life is a Funny Business: A Very Personal Story
Atlanta Jewish Connector, August 29, 2022
Alan Shatter offers insight into Irish society from the 1950s through the 1970s and recounts how being Jewish influenced him personally and politically.
A Review of Simon Lewis’s Jewtown
JewishBoston, April 28, 2022
A collection of poems chronicles the rise and decline of Cork’s Jewish community
A Transcript of Rabbi Theodore Lewis’s 1959 TV Appearance
The Times of Israel — The Blogs, December 15, 2019
Among other events in his storied life, Rabbi Theodore Lewis appeared as a guest on an episode of the popular American television game show To Tell the Truth. Sponsored by the cigarette manufacturer Marlboro and hosted by Bud Collyer, the episode aired on the evening of June 30, 1959.
A Persistent Interest in the Other: Gerry Mc Donnell’s Writings on Irish Jews
Studies: An Irish Quarterly Review 108:431 (Autumn 2019), pp. 298–312
Dublin author Gerry Mc Donnell explores Irish Jewry in prose and poetry.
For an earlier article on Mc Donnell, see A Literary Outsider, Gerry McDonnell Continues to Find Inspiration in Irish Jewry, New English Review, November 2018
Irish writer Gerry Mc Donnell in Dublin. Photo — Shai Afsai
Tablet Magazine, June 29, 2018
Fifty-nine years ago, Rabbi Theodore Lewis of Newport went on one of TV’s most popular game shows. Hilarity and profundity ensued.