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From The Dark Margins To The Spotlight: The Evolution Of Gastronomy And Food Studies In Ireland, Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Books/Book Chapters

For many years, food was seen as too quotidian and belonging to the domestic sphere, and therefore to women, which excluded it from any serious study or consideration in academia. This chapter tracks the evolution of gastronomy and food studies in Ireland. It charts the development of gastronomy as a cultural field, originally in France, to its emergence as an academic discipline with a particular Irish inflection. It details the progress that food history and culinary education have made in Ireland, suggesting that a new liberal / vocational model of culinary education, which commenced in 1999, has helped transform the …

Blessed With The Faculty Of Mirthfulness: The New Journalism And Irish Local Newspapers In 1900, Mark Wehrly

Irish Communication Review

Throughout the nineteenth century, several developments contrived – mostly indirectly – to make newspaper publishing in Britain an attractive business prospect. These included rising literacy levels, the abolition of taxes on newspapers in 1855 and innovations in the way newspapers were produced and distributed. From the mid-nineteenth century onwards this had the effect, in both Britain and Ireland, of increasing in multiples the number of different newspapers that were published (Cullen, 1989: 4–5). Likewise, in Dublin as in London, lively debates took place on the desirability of these developments, and the question of the social function of journalism was widely …

History Painting And Patriotism: James Barry And Jacques Louis David, Claire Dubois

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

A Prophetic Voice?: Albert Memmi's Portrait Du Décolonisé Arabo-Musulman Et De Quelques Autres, Sheila Walsh

Journal of Franco-Irish Studies

No abstract provided.

Foster Care In Ireland, Rosemary Horgan

Irish Journal of Applied Social Studies

No abstract provided.

Bartenders Association Of Ireland - A History, James Peter Murphy

Books/Book Chapters

This publication is a chronology of the Bartenders Association of Ireland, An Cumann Tabhairnithe Eireann (BAI). The BAI evolved from the United Kingdom Bartenders Guild (UKBG) formed in 1934. The book deals with the many physiological, economic, social changes and technological developments in the beverage industry since 1948, it documents the introduction of cocktails and various beverages in Ireland during those years, provides an insight into social history and includes a pictorial record of the past half-century.

This book was reviewed in various trade publications and journals over the years, for example: Crean T & O'Connor E (2000) 'Saochar 25 …

A Morning In Dublin, Irish Tourist Association

Papers

It is always pleasant to have a morning to spend in Dublin. There are so many things to do and see that your only trouble will be to choose between them. The morning's tour suggested here has Guinness's Brewery at St. James's Gate as its objective, and gives an opportunity of seeing several other places of interest on the way. The route is marked in green on the map which follows.