The country cooking of Ireland

385 Pages·2012·48.93 MB·English

by  Andrews, Colman;Hirsheimer, Christopher(Photographs)

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Do mo Érin féin, le grá mór
Text copyright © 2009 by Colman Andrews.
Photographs copyright © 2009 by Christopher Hirsheimer.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without
written permission from the publisher.
ISBN 978-1-4521-2405-6
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available under ISBN 978-0-8118-6670-5
Designed by Jacob T. Gardner
Typesetting by Janis Reed
Archival photography credits—Pages 43 and 375: courtesy of Tourism Ireland;
page 50 (top): copyright © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans;
pages 50 (bottom) and 153: courtesy of Waterford County Museum;
pages 75, 86, and 226: courtesy of National Photographic Archive, Dublin;
page 281: copyright © Pacemaker Press International;
page 289: courtesy Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
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[O]ver it all–the white houses, the green fields with their stone walls, the long road
winding, the slow herds coming along in the knee-deep dust, the sweet smell of turf
burning, the little carts with coloured shafts, the soft Irish voices, the quick Irish
smiles–over it all, and in it as if imprisoned in the stone and brick of this country, as
if buried beneath the grass and hidden in the trees, is something that is half magic and
half music.
–H. V. Morton, In Search of Ireland (1930)
We can feel the beauty of a magnificent landscape perhaps,
but we can describe a leg of mutton and turnips better.
–William Makepeace Thackeray, The Irish Sketchbook (1843)