Dorothy Cashman
@irishcookbooks.bsky.social
Culinary historian. History of the recipe in Ireland, through manuscript and print.
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
https://shop.ria.ie/products/irish-food-history
Co-editor European Journal of Food, Drink, and Society https://arrow.tudublin.ie/ejfds/
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🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
December 1, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🎶Pass the poitín to the left-hand side🎶
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
"Bígí ag ól go bhfeicidh sibh an gloine ag 'ul tuafal, ansin glanaigí abhaile!"
(Seanrá as Árainn, InaG, 1897)
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🎄On the first day of #12PubsOfChristmas, we’re cooking up Ireland’s rich food heritage! Irish Food History: A Companion, edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman, brings together 30+ contributors to explore Ireland’s culinary heritage from the Ice Age to modern dining.
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
🎄On the first day of #12PubsOfChristmas, we’re cooking up Ireland’s rich food heritage! Irish Food History: A Companion, edited by Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire & Dorothy Cashman, brings together 30+ contributors to explore Ireland’s culinary heritage from the Ice Age to modern dining.
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You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.
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I'm very pleased to formally launch "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map" with location/bio info on 720+ women & men receiving U.S. pensions in Ireland-significantly more than previously thought: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map
An interactive map with biographical info and addresses of 700+ women, men and children who received U.S. pensions in 19th century Ireland.
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I'm very pleased to formally launch "Yankee Pensioners in Ireland 1845-1905: An Interactive Map" with location/bio info on 720+ women & men receiving U.S. pensions in Ireland-significantly more than previously thought: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/4e3d...
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Fantastic achievement for the Irish Food History authors and the Royal Irish Academy, winners of the "Oscars' of food publishing. A brilliant book and a worthy winner. @ria.ie
www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...
www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...
Irish food history book wins best of the best award at ‘Oscars’ of food publishing
Irish Food History: A Companion is an edited collection of 28 chapters covering the story of food, drink and gastronomy in Ireland from the Ice Age to the present day
www.irishexaminer.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Fantastic achievement for the Irish Food History authors and the Royal Irish Academy, winners of the "Oscars' of food publishing. A brilliant book and a worthy winner. @ria.ie
www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...
www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...
“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
Ómós Digest #204: A Reflection on Spice Bags.
Made from my daughter’s leftovers. By Gerry Godley.
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 7:29 PM
“You will have your own view on the state of Irish food and the spice bag’s place within it, the state of it. Far be it for me to yuck anybody’s yum, I’m just not wholly convinced it’s definitively Irish, a state of being I concede is slippery at the best of times” open.substack.com/pub/omos/p/o...
“The Tradwife invitation……is one that enfolds itself neatly into a settler colonial gender normativity, a white nationalism, that places women in the fragile position of financial and emotional dependence on a husband.”
Great article!
Great article!
It's All a Lie: Thanksgiving Tradwife edition. The real real history of Thanksgiving that you never knew. #Thanksgiving #History
The Tradwife Origins of Thanksgiving
No Indians, No Pilgrims, Just a Heaping Serving of Gender Roles
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
“The Tradwife invitation……is one that enfolds itself neatly into a settler colonial gender normativity, a white nationalism, that places women in the fragile position of financial and emotional dependence on a husband.”
Great article!
Great article!
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This November the @dib.ie publishes 29 biographical entries: 28 new entries alongside an extensive revision of an existing entry. This eclectic range of noteworthy lives, drawn from across the spectrum of Irish society can be viewed here:
www.dib.ie/news/broadca...
www.dib.ie/news/broadca...
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This November the @dib.ie publishes 29 biographical entries: 28 new entries alongside an extensive revision of an existing entry. This eclectic range of noteworthy lives, drawn from across the spectrum of Irish society can be viewed here:
www.dib.ie/news/broadca...
www.dib.ie/news/broadca...
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I got to be part of this incredible, truly magical project and am thrilled to see it grow. Here's more info
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
November 24, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I got to be part of this incredible, truly magical project and am thrilled to see it grow. Here's more info
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
sanctuarylab.org/artists-2021...
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We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 #ExploreYourArchive ambassador is @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social, historian, lecturer and Director of Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social.
Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!
Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our 2025/26 #ExploreYourArchive ambassador is @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social, historian, lecturer and Director of Gender Studies @ucdgender.bsky.social.
Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!
Mary will be joining us for the launch of the #EYA focus week at the Custom House Visitor Centre this Thursday!
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Perhaps make a “favourite” of this? - let’s not complain this year about the challenges facing small Irish businesses. There are alternatives, and they are online - 100 Irish websites for all your Christmas presents: Shopping guide for the festive season
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
100 Irish websites for all your Christmas presents: Shopping guide for the festive season
A curated, all-Irish roundup of the best places to shop for gifts — online and on time
www.irishtimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Perhaps make a “favourite” of this? - let’s not complain this year about the challenges facing small Irish businesses. There are alternatives, and they are online - 100 Irish websites for all your Christmas presents: Shopping guide for the festive season
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
www.irishtimes.com/your-money/2...
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‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Brett Christophers · Assume the worst: Where our waste goes
Just as Big Oil has repeatedly failed to deliver on pledges to begin decarbonising, so too the promises of plastics...
www.lrb.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 6:30 PM
‘Around a quarter of all clothing manufactured is never sold, and the rates of return within the refund window can be as high as 50 per cent. Most of this unwanted stock is buried or burned.’
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@brettchristophers.bsky.social on why we can’t get rid of our waste.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
Ban the hunting of foxes with packs of dogs on horseback in Ireland
Can you support this campaign to bring in legislation banning the hunting of foxes using packs of dogs and horses?
my.uplift.ie
November 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: my.uplift.ie/petitions/pe... @uplift.ie
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🚨Worrying news in Brussels.
The EU Commission is proposing to quietly slash Europe’s vital #pesticide safety laws – granting unlimited approvals & sidelining independent science.
This puts nature, workers safety & people's health at risk – just when stronger protections are needed.
#FoodSafety
The EU Commission is proposing to quietly slash Europe’s vital #pesticide safety laws – granting unlimited approvals & sidelining independent science.
This puts nature, workers safety & people's health at risk – just when stronger protections are needed.
#FoodSafety
A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical #pesticides.
Read more here: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
Read more here: www.pan-europe.info/press-releas...
EU Commission proposes unlimited pesticide approvals: Science abandoned, industry interests above health and environment
A draft Omnibus regulation on Food and Feed reveals that the European Commission’s DG SANTE is attempting to deregulate all chemical pesticides. This comes under the guise of “simplification”, intende...
www.pan-europe.info
November 20, 2025 at 4:51 PM
🚨Worrying news in Brussels.
The EU Commission is proposing to quietly slash Europe’s vital #pesticide safety laws – granting unlimited approvals & sidelining independent science.
This puts nature, workers safety & people's health at risk – just when stronger protections are needed.
#FoodSafety
The EU Commission is proposing to quietly slash Europe’s vital #pesticide safety laws – granting unlimited approvals & sidelining independent science.
This puts nature, workers safety & people's health at risk – just when stronger protections are needed.
#FoodSafety
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Celebrating the launch of Pious and promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
November 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Celebrating the launch of Pious and promiscuous by @leannecalvert.bsky.social
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
The book offers a previously unseen glimpse into how ordinary people navigated life’s most significant events as members of a closely knit religious community. Their stories may make you laugh, gasp or even shed a tear
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My darling. I write from the battlefield. It's so cold today; there is ill news throughout the mid-Atlantic—is what they say about Montclair true?—yet here are good tidings: the pararhyme disarmed them and we plan to turn the tide with metonymy. Their armies are vast but we are not without hope.
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
My darling. I write from the battlefield. It's so cold today; there is ill news throughout the mid-Atlantic—is what they say about Montclair true?—yet here are good tidings: the pararhyme disarmed them and we plan to turn the tide with metonymy. Their armies are vast but we are not without hope.
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If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
November 20, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.
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Excited to see that our book page (The King's Dinner) is now live. It is all feeling a bit real now! It has been such a pleasure to work with Rachel Rich @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social -- and the lovely editorial team @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
The King’s Dinner
The King’s Dinner is about what it meant to be British at the end of the eighteenth century. Drawing on a large, open dataset of two royal household kitchen ledgers, the authors study the role and inf...
uclpress.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Excited to see that our book page (The King's Dinner) is now live. It is all feeling a bit real now! It has been such a pleasure to work with Rachel Rich @adamcrymble.bsky.social @sarahfoxhistory.bsky.social -- and the lovely editorial team @uclpress.bsky.social uclpress.co.uk/book/the-kin...
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In this blog, we uncover new information about the provenance of the RIA Library's Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections. Charles Haliday MRIA (1789?-1866) was a 19th C book collector whose extraordinary collection of over 25,000 pamphlets is house in RIA Library. www.ria.ie/blog/notes-o...
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
In this blog, we uncover new information about the provenance of the RIA Library's Haliday Pamphlet and Tract Collections. Charles Haliday MRIA (1789?-1866) was a 19th C book collector whose extraordinary collection of over 25,000 pamphlets is house in RIA Library. www.ria.ie/blog/notes-o...
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A really thrilling day working on an upcoming documentary for BBC Radio 4: the story of a family history of anti-Nazi resistance.
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
November 19, 2025 at 4:39 PM
A really thrilling day working on an upcoming documentary for BBC Radio 4: the story of a family history of anti-Nazi resistance.
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
Thanks to the IISH Amsterdam for hosting and sharing some of its vast riches!
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The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?
The widespread indifference to the British Library's crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity
www.cityam.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:26 PM
The scale of the damage at the British Library is difficult to fathom from the outside. Working in the wreckage of the hack has made me even less sanguine about the digital age into which we have leapt feet first.
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Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent share.google/spCMW7qYvg79...
Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack
A much-loved Dublin bookshop will kick off the festive season next week with a late-night Christmas shopping party featuring cocktails, cookies and surprise author signings.
share.google
November 15, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Dublin bookshop to host festive late-night shopping event following arson attack | Irish Independent share.google/spCMW7qYvg79...
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Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
Healthy oceans, safe future: stop the toxic shark trade
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now!
action.wemove.eu
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Three sharks are killed every second - Europe’s trade in shark meat is driving them toward extinction. Let’s ban shark products once and for all. Sign now! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-11...
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Fine Tim Adams tribute to peerless Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, colleague, friend
Remembering Rachel Cooke | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Fine Tim Adams tribute to peerless Rachel Cooke, Observer writer, colleague, friend