Contents

Elizabeth FitzPatrick and James Kelly

Preface

Stephen Mennell

Introduction

Graeme Warren

‘Mere food gatherers they, parasites upon nature. . .’: food and drink in the Mesolithic of Ireland

Jessica Smyth and Richard P. Evershed

The molecules of meals: new insight into Neolithic foodways

Alan Hawkes

Fulachtaí fia and Bronze Age cooking in Ireland: reappraising the evidence

Cherie N. Peters

‘He is not entitled to butter’: the diet of peasants and commoners in early medieval Ireland

Susan Lyons

Food plants, fruits and foreign foodstuffs: the archaeological evidence from urban medieval Ireland

Fiona Beglane

The social significance of game in the diet of later medieval Ireland

Madeline Shanahan

‘Whipt with a twig rod’: Irish manuscript recipe books as sources for the study of culinary material culture, c. 1660 to 1830

James Kelly

The consumption and sociable use of alcohol in eighteenth-century Ireland

Regina Sexton

Food and culinary cultures in pre-Famine Ireland

Ian Miller

Nutritional decline in post-Famine Ireland, c. 1851–1922

Rhona Richman Kenneally

Towards a new domestic architecture: homes, kitchens and food in rural Ireland during the long 1950s

Diarmaid Ferriter

Drink and society in twentieth-century Ireland

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire

Haute cuisine restaurants in nineteenth and twentieth century Ireland

Frank Armstrong

Beef with potatoes: food, agriculture and sustainability in modern Ireland