Nowadays, fish and chip shops in Dublin are bustling hubs of culinary delight, offering a taste of comfort and tradition to locals and visitors alike. Cervi began serving fish and
chips with his wife from a stall on Pearse Street.

The name of Cervi would eventually adorn a shop there, advertising their much-beloved food, and where the familiar phrase ‘one and
one’ would originate.

The River Poddle (An Poitéal) was the main source of drinking water for Dublin for more than 500 years, from the 1240s.

It gave the city its English language name, deriving from the Irish word Dubh Linn, meaning “black pool” or “dark pool”.

The River Poddle served as the primary source of drinking water for Dubliners for more than 500 years and also provides the source of the city’s modern name.

The Dubh Linn or ‘black pool’ to which it refers was sited just 200 metres from this very spot within the walls of Dublin Castle.

By 1911, the Italian community in Ireland numbered less than 400 immigrants. In Dublin’s ‘Little Italy’, class divisions were formed between groups from the Lucca region, consisting of plasterers and woodworkers, and the Val di Comino region, described as cafe owners and ice cream vendors.

Giuseppe Cervi, a resident of Ship Street, was among the latter. He is credited with opening Dublin’s first fish and chip shop, or ‘chipper’.

Gormlaith – an Irish wife to a Viking king of Dublin, is a legendary figure spun through the history and folklore of Ireland. Her lineage is traced back to the mighty Murchad mac Finn, the crowned King of Leinster.

She pledged herself to Olaf Cuarán until his death in 981 and later married Brian Boru, the high king of Ireland following his defeat of her son. A pragmatist to the end.

After Sigtrygg Silkbeard’s defeat at the Battle of Glenn Máma, Queen Gormlaith married the High King of Ireland, Brian Boru.

From their union blossomed a son, Donnchad, who would one day claim his father’s mantle and rule over Munster with an iron fist.

Stucco, the exquisite art of plasterwork, played a significant role in the history of Italy’s influence on Ireland. The ‘Irlandiani,’ Ireland’s Italian community, may have been small in
numbers, but their impact was undeniable. Among them were those skilled in the art of stucco, lending their expertise to transform grand mansions.

The struggle for universal female suffrage – full voting rights for women – was taken up with characteristic zeal and bravery by many Irish women.

In the first decade of the 20th century prominent feminist and polemicist Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington was at its forefront. She and her kind blazed a trail still visible today.

In the early 1900s, Dublin became a pivotal hub of the suffragette movement in Ireland, with Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington at its forefront.

As an influential suffragette and feminist, Sheehy-Skeffington dedicated her life to advocating for women’s rights and equality.