Hotel review: Dublin’s new, Irish-owned arrival wants to be ‘a credible alternative to a five-star’
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Inside The Chancery, Dublin's new hotel inspired by Little Italy
Did you know Dublin once had a Little Italy?
In the late 1800s and early 1900s, Ship Street and Chancery Lane were among several streets home to hundreds of Italian migrants — artisans, plaster and marble workers, ice cream men, organ grinders with monkeys. It was “a hive of life”, as Donal Fallon puts it in ‘Chippers and Catholicism’, an episode of his brilliant Three Castles Burning podcast.
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