‘Tickling the Palate’ Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture

«This collection will enlighten and delight readers. [...] The writers and editors are to be congratulated on their original research and new insights into a topic that interests everyone: food.»
(Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, The Irish Times, 28 June 2014)

«This diverse collection of well-researched and sometimes provocative essays gives us much to think about, and should inspire further research. The editors and authors are to be congratulated on what they have done.»
(Barbara Ketcham Wheaton, Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 38/2014)

Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire is a lecturer in culinary arts at the Dublin Institute of Technology. He is an award-winning chef, culinary historian, food writer, broadcaster and ballad singer. He has presented two series of the cookery programme Aingeal sa Christin for RTÉ and has featured on numerous other radio and television programmes. He is chair and co-founder of the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium.
Eamon Maher is Director of the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at the Institute of Technology, Tallaght (Dublin), where he also lectures in humanities. His most recent book, co-edited with Eugene O’Brien, is From Prosperity to Austerity: A Socio-Cultural Critique of the Celtic Tiger and its Aftermath (2014).