Irish Recipes

Looking for Irish recipes? From shepherds pie to corned beef and cabbage, our library of Irish Recipes offers highlights of this hearty cuisine.

Surrounded by sea, dotted with lakes and criss-crossed with streams, Ireland abounds with fresh seafood, while green pastures provide meats and dairy.

Though blight devastated the crop (and country) in the 1840s, potatoes remain ideally suited to Irelands soil and climate. And Irish cooks still use spuds unsparingly in everything from soups to cakes.

Irish food was long considered a punch line, a two-trick pony of spuds and stews. But today, cities like Cork and Dublin are world-class food towns, offering inventive cuisine that favors fresh local ingredients.

Dark, rich and slow from the tap, stout beer with its telltale foamy top is an Irish classic. Locals will tell you, Irelands the only place to get a true pint of stout. Fancy a jar?