Suzanne Campbell

A goose was Ireland’s traditional Christmas bird; this week I headed to Darina Allen in Ballymaloe #Cork to learn more on their history, scarity and learn how to cook one. All on Countrywide on @rteradio1.bsky.social
tomorrow #irishfood 🍴🎄

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

More wonderful wins for this fantastic book which won our 2025 Food History and Heritage Award #IrishBooks #foodhistory #ireland
www.irishexaminer.com/food/arid-41...

#wicklow today. At least the monsoon-like rain has stopped for few hours. This is a barely field harvested in September, with crop coming up again in the warm temperatures

We really need to win this 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 #coybig

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Oh god.. it was inevitable #AI #mentalhealth

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#Rye is the grain of the moment with 1000 hectares more planted this year than in 2024. I visit Dunsany Farm and Mill in #Louth to talk about growing rye, and McNallys farm shop to eat their gorgeous #rye foods. On CountryWide @rteradio1.bsky.social tomorrow morning 🌾

Ireland has too many deer, so why don’t we eat more #venison? This and other aspects of our new deer management strategy will be explored in a panel discussion I’m chairing in the FRS tent at the National Ploughing Championships at 11.30am #ploughing2025

Coming up in #cork; lots of Irish food writers, chefs and food producers on stage for Feast Cork in #Middleton this Sunday @deelaffan.bsky.social

Beautiful meal on the terrace of The Unicorn #Dublin. Beautiful Irish Scallops 👌🏻👌🏻

Looking forward to eating your food Colm!

Why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old Known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday, it was a day to mark the end of Hungry July and anticipate the harvest to come

Depending on where you are in Ireland, tomorrow is variously called: Garland Sunday, Reek Sunday, Sunday of the New Potatoes, Bilberry Sunday (& many other names) and it’s the start of Lughnasa!
Read more in my piece for
@rtebrainstorm.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

One person dead and nine cases confirmed after ‘extensive’ listeriosis outbreak linked to recall of over 140 ready-made meals An adult has died following an outbreak of listeriosis linked to a recall of 141 different ready-made meals sold in major retail supermarkets.

Urgent: dont eat any supermarket ready meals before you check this list; Irish #listeria outbreak m.independent.ie/irish-news/o...

Wonderful seeing chef and campaigner @chefjoseandres.bsky.social of @wck.org in Ireland enjoying Portrush and the wonderful Lír Seafood 🙌🏻❤️
#IrishFood #AnthonyBourdain #FreePalestine 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

As we begin the quarter-finals of the EUROs today, it’s amazing to see the record breaking numbers of the group stages!

461,582 people attended the group stage games in Switzerland this year - the most ever at any women’s EUROs!

Any restaurant recommendations for #LaRochelle 🙏🏻 🇫🇷🍴

Tomorrow on Countrywide on RTE Radio I report from New Leaf Urban farm #Limerick. Using #KoreanNaturalFarming methods, Kevin Wallace grows award-winning salad leaves and veg which is sold to Aware Manor and also the local Spar ✨🌱

Delighted to be at the launch of a new BA in Sustainable Butchery and Gastronomy at MTU #Cork. In the same way sommeliers champion wine, ambassadors in butchery can shout about how great #Irishbeef is.
Not surprisingly Pat Whelan of James Whelan Butchers played a big part in this 👏🏻✨

Thank god sense has prevailed at last #GAA #womeninsport

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When the sun is finally evident, this person finally decides to move off the sofa and on to the floor 🙄

Want to develop a local food or rural #festival? Funding available in the Small-Scale Local Festivals and Summer Schools Scheme, maximum grant is €5k. Closing date is
April 4th, 2025.
bit.ly/41q2FYs

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Dalrymple and Anita Anand’s @empirepoduk.bsky.social is unbelievably good. I’ve learned so much about India, Iran and Middle East already. Now they turn their attention to #Ireland. This is going to be AMAZING 🔥
#irishhistory #historypodcast #colonialism

School Meals report By the end of 2025 all primary school children in Ireland will be eligible for a daily hot meal. The schools themselves find the hot meal suppliers, but the scheme has received some criticism over the...

Is your child getting a hot school dinner? Why is the quality great in some schools and then the opposite in others? My report yesterday for @rte.ie Radio 1 #irishfood
#irishfood www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Engraved and stemmed glass.

A nice object I spotted earlier. It's a glass dedicated to 'Captain Napper Tandy.' Hard to make out in the cabinet but certainly 18th c. and of interest to any Irish/Dublin historians I'dimagine, if any followed me, which they don't of course! ...

The tractors in #Dublin tractor protests are definitely less fancy €€€ #London #JohnDeere