They formed an accepted part of the city's retail trade, centred on Colooney St. The community established a synagogue and a cemetery in the 1880s. Easter Sunday of 1884 saw the first of what were to be a series of sporadic violent antisemitic attacks and protests.
The Jewish community became an integral part of the city's commercial sector, located on Colooney St. They established a synagogue and cemetery in the 1880s. In 1884, Easter Sunday saw the beginning of a series of sporadic antisemitic attacks and protests against them.