Albert L. Altman

Albert L. Altman (1853–1903) was an entrepreneur and owner of the largest salt manufacturer and distributor in Dublin for two decades (1882–1903) as well as a politically active Irish nationalist who served as Usher's Quay Ward Town Councillor on the Dublin City Council Corporation from 1901 to 1903.

Altman's influence as a Temperance-Labour leader and member of the post-Parnellite Irish National Federation (INF) included a reputation for support of the working classes and unions, governmental financial reform, urban modernization, and loquaciousness in his campaign speeches and motions in Council chambers in Dublin City Hall.

Altman's public arguments with Lord Mayor Timothy Harrington were regularly reported in the Dublin press, making Altman one of the most visible members of the Council during his tenure and the only city official known widely during the era as having come from a Jewish immigrant family to Ireland.

Through his notoriety as a Dublin figure involved in William O'Brien's Plan of Campaign, a victim of public Jew-baiting by his opponents, and his leadership on Corporation projects such as the city's Main Drainage System and his proposed public ownership of the Dublin United Tramways Company (DUTC), Altman's politics, personality, and Jewish background have been noted by scholars as parallel aspects of James Joyce's protagonist Leopold Bloom in his novel ''Ulysses'' (1922). Provided by Wikipedia