Rhona,
A PS to my previous message - at the ACIS conference in 2001, Hasia Diner
gave a paper on Irish food culture, though dealing, as I recall, with the
19th rather than the 20th century and with the Irish American experience.
Rosemary
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From: "Rhona Richman Kenneally" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 2:30 PM
Subject: Irish food culture
> Dear fellow list members,
>
> I'm doing research on Canadian food culture and am interested to know who
might be doing
> similar or related work in Ireland. I'm currently exploring the
relationship between food incentives
> such as cookbooks, advice columns, government pamphlets and
advertisements, etc., and the
> actual adoption and appropriation of these in the home since the second
half of the twentieth
> century. I'm also curious about the implementation of new foods in the
Postwar era, and on how
> domestic design and architecture adapted and influenced eating practices
in the family. It would
> be fascinating to know if anyone is studying these or similar aspects of
Irish culture, especially
> given what seems to me to be a significant food renaissance in Ireland
over the past decade or so.
> I'd also appreciate hearing about any archival material that seems
potentially rich in this area.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Rhona Richman Kenneally
>
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> Rhona Richman Kenneally, Ph.D. (Architecture)
> Dept. of Design and Computation Arts
> Concordia University, Montreal
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