Italian community in Edinburgh?

[Craig Cockburn]

Ann an sgriobhainn <rdfuchs-1202...@ts002d16.lan-
pa.concentric.net>, sgriobh rdf...@concentric.net
>Someone a long time ago wrote:
>
>>>There are also many thousands of Italian immigrants in Scotland, most of
>>>whom would be Catholic. Many of these families have been over here for
>>>generations. I have no idea what the numbers are (tens of thousands?) and
>>>where they are mostly located, but there are a great number in Edinburgh.
>
>Can anyone else enlighten me on this subject? Is there a "Little Italy" in
>Edinburgh? etc. etc.

There's certainly a lot of Italian shops and restaurants but not in any
particular area. Valvona and Crolla is a good place to visit.

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[Jack Campin]

Craig Cockburn <cr...@scot.demon.co.uk> writes:
> sgriobh rdf...@concentric.net
>> Someone a long time ago wrote:

>>> There are also many thousands of Italian immigrants in Scotland ...

>> Can anyone else enlighten me on this subject? Is there a "Little Italy"
>> in Edinburgh? etc. etc.
> There's certainly a lot of Italian shops and restaurants but not in any
> particular area. Valvona and Crolla is a good place to visit.

The area around V&C has a lot of Italians living in it (I've delivered
leaflets round here, so I've seen the names on the doors) and there are
a lot of Italian businesses - another deli (D'Onofrio's), and several
restaurants and takeaways. This is why there's a local Catholic school
(St Mary's). The Paolozzi family come from here, which is why there are
so many people walking about proportioned like Eduardo Paolozzi's self-
portrait sculpture in the Scottish National Portrait Gallery.

It isn't quite a Little Italy on the American model, but it's the closest
we've got. Where else would you find a takeaway with a sign like this?

You may pay in American dollars
Se piu pagare in lire italiane

And there's a flat with an Italian football team's slogan painted on the
windowsill. There are many shops in the area where you could do your
shopping in Italian. People in V&C's do it all the time. Living here,
Italian is the language I hear most of after English.

As I understand it, Italian immigrants from each region first settled in
a distinct part of Edinburgh; most of the Elm Row Italians came from the
same village.

(The top end of Leith Walk does double duty as a Little Punjab, for that
matter - Urdu and Punjabi are the other major non-English languages).

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