You walk into a small Irish village, glance at the road sign, and move on. But what if that sign — in Irish and English …
Ask any Dubliner what they want on a cold winter’s night, and they won’t say a steak or a gourmet risotto. They’ll say coddle. It’s …
There is a moment, if you are ever in a small room in the west of Ireland and someone begins to sing in Irish, when …
On a summer Sunday evening in rural Ireland, if you listened carefully, you could hear it long before you saw it. The rhythm of dancing …
Learn how to make authentic French baguettes at home using a classic poolish preferment. Chris’s method produces a beautifully crispy crust and open, airy crumb — bakery quality from your own oven.
If you put a pair of shoes on a table in an Irish home, someone will remove them. Without explanation. Without apology. They will simply …
The Irish language, known as Gaeilge, holds within it a whole philosophy of life. There are words in Irish that English simply cannot translate — …
Every year, millions of Americans pull on green hats, drink green beer, and belt out songs they couldn’t name the day before. It’s loud, joyful, …
Walk through the arched doorway of almost any Irish castle and you can feel it — that particular quality of silence that isn’t quite silence …
Before motorways cut through the countryside and mobile phones made everything instant, the Irish knew exactly where to go in a moment of need. They …
Every rural Irish community has a story. A neighbour whose cows stopped giving milk overnight. A farmer whose hay rotted before the first cut. A …