Today I learned that a sizeable number of Irish chippers are run by families descended from a single 1880s wave of Italian migration to Ireland: http://www.itica.ie/history ">https://www.itica.ie/history&q...

Between this, the fact that Beschoff& #39;s Fish and Chips is an indirect result of the 1905 Mutiny on the Battleship Potemkin and the invention of the spice bag, we& #39;ve got all the key ingredients of a social history of Ireland through takeaway food

Anyone interested should watch this. Some incredible stories: one of the families moved to Ireland TWO WEEKS before the Easter Rising! What a welcome.

(thanks @cathal_oleary for linking me to the doc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_-HecJ89A&feature=youtu.be">https://www.youtube.com/watch... https://www.youtube.com/watch...