JP McMahon: Irish food was never just one thing
To try and define Irish food for a new generation was my ultimate aim in writing The Irish Cook Book
Simple cod chowder: a quick dish full of flavour
JP McMahon: Many think that chowder needs a variety of fish and shellfish, but this is not the case
Party like it’s 1959: Cooking like Great-Granny used to
Jennifer O’Connell’s daughter digs out old family recipes for a 1950s baking weekend
Open season: Grand Irish homes that welcome visitors – and get a tax break
‘It isn’t a handout. We’ve earned it,’ say owners of some of Ireland’s best-known houses
Sweet memories: remembering the first time I ate bread and butter pudding
JP McMahon: I was six at the time and a far cry from the chef I am today
A handwritten recipe falls from my grandmother’s cookbook: “Pizza for 1 Person”. My heart shatters
Jennifer O’Connell: Food is an endlessly rich lexicon of joy, desire, friendship and love
Mental health: Lifting the spirits on the farm
Sometimes the only voice a farmer hears is on the radio in the tractor cab
The sweetest things: our favourite desserts and cakes
A look back at the delicious cakes, biscuits, puddings and pies we’ve cooked – and talked about – this year
Alison Healy... on when a cookbook is about more than just food
The cookbook only came out for special occasions. The pages with the most splatters are the ones with the sponge cake recipes: feathery sponge, chocolate sponge, one egg sponge, hot milk sponge.
Late writer Wesley Burrowes best remembered for ‘Glenroe’
Northern Protestant wrote with great success about ‘primitive’ rural Catholic Ireland
Glenroe creator Wesley Burrowes dies aged 85
Playwright and screenwriter ‘the master’ of television drama, says RTÉ director-general
Diarmaid Ferriter: The advice of Ireland’s first celebrity chef is more relevant than ever
It is no harm to remind ourselves how sound this age old advice is, given the furore during the week over the World Health Organisation’s report on links between red meat consumption and certain cancers.
In praise of Maura Laverty, by Anna Carey
Irish Women Writers series: ‘It was the first time I’d read fiction about an Irish girl’s adolescence that wasn’t grim’
Domestic suffering simmers beneath the surface of domestic goddesses
Nigella Lawson and Isabella Beeton had more in common than popular recipes
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