Early Life
He was educated at the Model School and Presentation Brothers College in Cork, and a Jewish boarding school in Sussex, England before attending University College Cork, serving as President of the University Law Society. Earlier he was refused permission to speak a the Philisop, the debating society because of his Jewish background. He received a Master of Arts degree from the University in 1968 and the University awarded its famous graduate an honorary doctorate in Laws in 1993.
After qualifying as a solicitor in 1934, Goldberg had a career in Criminal Law practice in Cork for 63 years, once representing noted Cork writer Frank O'Connor. He was the first Jewish President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
During the Second World War he set up a committee to assist Jews fleeing Nazism, but encountered resistance from various arms of the government, which was determined to discourage Jewish immigration to Ireland during "The Emergency".
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