The food people ate in the past in Ireland has always been closely interwoven with other aspects of our history, particularly so because for a …
In early Ireland everyone ate more or less the same food, initially whatever they could hunt or forage, later grains and other farmed crops.
When the potato arrived in Ireland it seemed like a godsend, easily grown and nutritious enough to sustain whole families on little else.
With a growing population locked in poverty and almost entirely dependent on the potato for sustenance, Ireland was by the mid 19th century something …
Recovery from the famine was slow, and it was 100 years before the Irish began to take an interest in food other than for sustenance.