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Learn how to make traditional Irish bread pudding with stale bread, eggs, milk and raisins. A simple, thrifty recipe with tips and serving ideas.

Learn how the autumn apple crumble became an Irish kitchen favourite, with a simple recipe, the best apples to use and tips for a crisp topping.

Dublin, Cork, Galway, Ennis, Westport, Sligo and Dundalk compared from official figures: rent, population, trains, flights to America, hospitals and rain.

Learn how to make a rich Irish beef and stout stew at home, what to serve with it, and how to find a great bowl in an Irish pub.

Treacle bread is the dark, sweet soda bread that fills an Irish kitchen with warmth. Here is an easy recipe using black treacle and buttermilk, ready in about an hour.

James Joyce came home to Dublin in 1909 to open a cinema, yet Dubliners stayed unpublished in Ireland. Here is how the new Irish state came to censor its own greatest writers.

Photo: Slamforeman via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 4.0) Pull apart a proper full Irish and you will usually find two kinds of pudding on the …

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