Ireland, the Taste & the Country 1854700251, 9781854700254

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RELAND THE TASTE & THE COUNTRY MIKE BUNN

RELAND THE TASTE & THE COUNTRY

RELAND THE TASTE & THE COUNTRY MIKE BUNN

A

ANAYA PUBLISHERS LIMITED

LONDON

To

Betty

First

- and

to Ireland,

for being herself.

published in Great Britain in 1991

by Anaya Publishers

Ltd, 49 Neal Street,

London,

WC2H 9PJ.

©

Mike Bunn 1991 Text and photographs copyright Copyright (C) recipes, directory and maps Anaya Publishers Ltd. 1991 Art

director Jane

Editors Esther Jagger,

Production

Forster

Sue Fleming, Sue Wason

Maps Sarah Willis Charles James and Jenny May

1 Seafood from County Galway. page 5 A Thomastown, County Kilkenny, a place well known for its shopfronts. jacket front flap Autumn fruits from the Roscommon hedgerows, back flap Portrait of the author by

Picture captions: page cafe in

Hugh

Reid. front cover Roast pheasant from Mount Juliet, from Galway and freshly baked bread from the bakery at Schull, County Cork all set against a background of Lough Arrow, Co Sligo

oysters

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Bunn, Mike Ireland: the taste 1.

and the country

Ireland. Description I.

& travel

Title

914.1504824

ISBN Typeset

in

1-85470-025-1

Great Britain by Tradespools Ltd, Frome, Somerset

Colour reproduction by Columbia Offset, Singapore Printed in

Hong Kong

BERNARD KAVANAGH

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4

C ONTENTS

FOREWORD ByJ. P. Donleavy

8

The

(

taste &

the country 11

The lough

(

& the mountains the ruins & THE RAIN

from the mountain

MONAGHAN

TIPPERARY

LOUTH MEATH

CORK KERRY

DUBLIN

62

WICKLOW CARLOW KILKENNY

WEXFORD WATERFORD 32

6

The grand road