"I regret I have to say to your Excellency, that at present it is useless for a Jew to keep open his shop for any trade, for the Catholic people who were their customers will no longer deal with them, under the mistaken idea that in so depriving us of our means of living they are complying with some religious requirement of which they would be breaking the requirements if they were to trade with us."
Rabbi Levin of the Hebrew Congregation of Limerick, Synagogue Chambers, 63 Coloney Street.

"When I witnessed the organised attacks today and heard the mob yell 'Down with the Jews: they kill our innocent children', all the horrors of Kishineff came back to me, and then, and only then, was I able to realise what Kishineff meant [referring to the 1903 pogrom in Kishbinev, Bessarabia, in Rusia]."
Report in the Jewish Chronicle, 22 January 1904

The Limerick local paper exhorts "Hear All Sides":
"In another column of our issue this evening we insert Mr. Davitt's letter to the Freeman's Journal on the subject of the Rev. Father Creagh's recent remarks on the Jewish community in Limerick. In giving the letter publicity we are not to be taken as adopting his views, our desire being merely to show all sides fair play. In fact we are fully inclined to leave to Father Creagh himself the framing of a reply to the writer of the epistle, believing as we do that the rev gentleman is better in a position to do so than ourselves. One thing, however, we regret, and that is this, that Mr. Davitt did not treat Father Creagh's remarks more generally instead of confining himself to a small extract which has the tendency of obscuring the issue at stake, or, at all events, making less clear the objects which prompted them. Having said so much, we again desire to point out that the hospitality of our columns is open to both sides. Our motive is fair play and nothing more. The policy of the Limerick Leader is now too well known to create the feeling that we are actuated by any other interests than those of the common weal. One more word. It has come to our knowledge that the Jews for the past few days have been subjected to ill-treatment and assault while passing through our public thoroughfares. We regreat that such has been the case. We are living in critical times when every advantage is taken by unscrupulous opponents to misinterpret our acts and the cause of our religion. In such a crisis it is not wise to give a handle to vilification. If the people do not want the Jews, then leave them severely alone. Above all things have no recourse to violence. Such a policy only shows weakness, if not foolish vindictiveness, and will never succeed in accomplishing that which is, or may be desired.
Limerick Leader, Monday evening, January 18 1904

"...and, as for the Jews in business, I am quite prepared to admit that there are many who are irreproachable. What people have been pleased to call my crusade has been directed only against a class of Jewish traders who grind and oppress those who are unfortunate enough to get into their power - who exact extortionate sums under the instalment system from those who can ill aford to pay them"
Reverend Father Creagh, 8 February 1904, Northern Whig, Belfast

"We are glad Father Creagh has given the advice he did. We trust he will continue to give it. We have no quarrel with the Jews' religion; but all the howling of journalistic hacks and the balderdash of uninformed sentimentalists will not make us, nor should it make any honest man, cease to expose knavery, because the knavery is carried on by Jews."
Leader in the United Irishman, 23 April 1904

All quotes are taken from Dermot Keogh and Andrew McCarthy (2005) Limerick Boycott 1904: Anti-Semitism in Ireland, Cork: Mercier Press.