Tizia and Christina chat about the movie Brooklyn (originally a novel written by Colm Tóibín), starring Saoirse Ronan and Emory Cohen. In this episode, we talk about the difficulties of moving to a new place, the history of Irish and Italian immigration, the romance between Eilis and Tony, and so much more.

In this episode, we reference the following works:

• Forging an Ethnic Identity: The Case of Italian Americans by Stefano Luconi
• America Classifies the Immigrants - From Ellis Island to the 2020 Census by Joel Perlmann
• Irish Immigrants in New York City, 1945-1995 by Linda Dowling Almeida
• Who's Irish? Ethnic Identity and Recent Trends in Irish American History by Deirdre Moloney
• An Unlikely Union: The Love-Hate Story of New York's Irish and Italians Account by Paul Moses
• Review: Resettling the Meaning of Home in ‘Brooklyn,’ With Saoirse Ronan by A. O. Scott for the New York Times