Robert Emmett Briscoe was born on 25 September 1894 in the Little Jerusalem neighbourhood of South Dublin. He was a son of Abraham Briscoe and Ida Yoedicke, both of whom were Lithuanian-Jewish immigrants. The original family name in Lithuania is believed to have been Cherrick or Chasen. His brother Wolfe Tone Briscoe was named after Theobald Wolfe Tone.
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Briscoe was active in the IRA and Sinn Féin during the Irish War of Independence. He spoke for the Sinn Féin cause at public meetings and was adamant that being a "Hebrew" did not lessen his Irishness. Briscoe was sent by Michael Collins to Germany in 1919 to be the chief agent for procuring arms for the IRA.
After independence he was a TD in the Oireachtas for 38 years.
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