{"id":12214,"date":"2021-09-21T13:46:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T13:46:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/?post_type=news_and_events&#038;p=12214"},"modified":"2021-11-17T14:16:23","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T14:16:23","slug":"12214-2","status":"publish","type":"news_and_events","link":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/news_and_events\/12214-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The passing of Mervyn Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Jewish Museum wishes to extend their deepest condolences to the family of the late Mervyn Taylor who died on 23rd September 2021. Mr. Taylor had a distinguished political career becoming the first Jewish Minister in the Irish government and was a much cherished member of the Dublin Jewish community. His wife, the author Marilyn Taylor was a founder member of the museum and has been a long serving volunteer.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor-1024x569.jpg\" alt=\"Labour deputy Mervyn Taylor and Nuala Fennell\" width=\"800\" height=\"445\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-12215\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor-1024x569.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor-768x427.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor-600x333.jpg 600w, https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/mervyn-taylor.jpg 1296w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Further details about Mervyn Taylor can be found in his Irish Times Obituary here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/life-and-style\/people\/mervyn-taylor-obituary-empathetic-dublin-jew-who-pushed-minority-rights-1.4686897\">Mervyn Taylor obituary: Empathetic Dublin Jew who pushed minority rights<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Irish Jewish Museum wishes to extend their deepest condolences to the family of the late Mervyn Taylor who died on 23rd September 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1762,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false},"news_post_type":[24],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_and_events\/12214"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_and_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news_and_events"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_and_events\/12214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12219,"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_and_events\/12214\/revisions\/12219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news_post_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jewishmuseum.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_post_type?post=12214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}