Irish stew

Irish stew, is a traditional stew made from lamb, or mutton (mutton is used as it comes from less tender sheep over a year old, is fattier, and has a stronger flavour, and is generally the most traditional variation used) as well as potatoes, onions, and parsley. It may sometimes also include carrots. Irish stew is also made with kid goat.

Stewing is an ancient method of cooking meats that is common throughout the world. However, the Celts did not possess their first bronze cauldrons, copied from Greek models, until the seventh century BC. After the Celtic invasion of Ireland, the cauldron (along with the already established spit) became the dominant cooking tool in ancient Ireland, ovens being practically unknown to the ancient Gaels. The root vegetables and meat (originally goat) for the stew were then all in place, save for the potato. The introduction of the potato, originally a South American crop, did not occur until after the sixteenth century.

Kinsale

Kinsale, is a fishing village in County Cork, Ireland. Located some 25 km south of Cork City on the coast near the Old Head of Kinsale, it sits at the mouth of the River Bandon and has a population of 2,257 which increases substantially during the summer months when the tourist season is at its peak and when the boating fraternity arrive in large numbers.

The town is known for its restaurants, and holds an annual "Gourmet Festival". Chef Keith Floyd was previously a resident of Kinsale. Prominent buildings in the town include St. Multose's church (Church of Ireland), St. John the Baptist (Catholic), the Market House and the so-called French Prison (or Desmond Castle).

Killarney national park

Killarney National Park was designated as a Biosphere Reserve in 1981 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), part of a world network of natural areas which have conservation, research, education and training as major objectives. Killarney National Park contains many features of national and international importance such as the native oakwoods and yew woods together with an abundance of evergreen trees and shrubs and a profusion of bryophytes and lichens which thrive in the mild Killarney climate. The native red deer are unique in Ireland with a presence in the country since the last Ice Age.

Charles fort

Charles Fort is built on the site of an earlier stronghold known as Ringcurran Castle, which featured prominently during the Siege of Kinsale in 1601. The fort, which is named after Charles II, was designed by the Surveyor-general Sir William Robinson - architect of the Royal Hospital Kilmainham. The fort was built in the 1670s and 1680s to a star fortification design - a layout specifically designed to resist attack by cannon.

The fort was relinquished by British forces following the Anglo-Irish Treaty, but it fell out of use after being burned by the retreating anti-Treaty forces during the Irish Civil War in 1922. The complex was named a National Monument of Ireland in 1971 and has been partly restored by Dúchas, the Irish heritage service.

Josephine Bernadette

                                                           Josephine Bernadette




Josephine Bernadette Devlin McAliskey: Irish Politics born in Cookstown, County Tyrone in 1947.
Highlighted in the revolts of Derry (1969), the Battle of the Bogside, while a student of psychology and following which it was stopped.
Favors a progressive nationalism, in 1969 she was elected to the House of Commons representing the Ulster.
Arrested for participating in those riots, lost his record of deputy in the 1974 elections.
He founded the Irish Republican Socialist Party (Irish Republican Socialist Party).
Bernadette Devlin appeared in the Spanish state newspapers of the time as a Catholic heroine was far enough to be considered terrorist.
Bernadette Devlin had the merit of being chosen to sit in the British Parliament, with only 21 years, becoming a symbol of belligerency of the Irish Catholics in the North. This was enough to attract attention worldwide in 1969.

Important people

 


                                                                 James Connoly


James Connolly (Edinburgh, 1868 - Dublin, 1916) was an Irish labor leader and socialist. Born in Edinburgh, the son of Irish immigrant parents and was executed on May 12, 1916 at Kilmainham Prison.

He left school to work at eleven years old, and later became one of the political leaders of the time left.
You may enter the British Army at age fourteen, and was posted to Dublin, where he allegedly met the woman who would become his wife.
In 1892 was an important figure in the Scottish Socialist Federation, becoming general secretary of the same three years later. In 1896 he left the army and formed the Irish Socialist Republican Party. While he was on British soil, was one of the founders of the Socialist Labor Party, which split from the Social Democratic Federation in 1903. It was the right hand of James Larkin in the Transport Workers Union. In 1913 in response to the lockout of that year, he formed the Irish Citizen Army, a group of armed and trained workers struggling to defend workers and organized strikes. Consisted of only 250 people. Its ultimate goal was the establishment of an independent and socialist Irish nation free from British occupation

Gastronomía

                                                         Gastronomy of Ireland

Ingredients more commons

The main ingredient is the potato Irish cuisine. A representative the Colcannon dish made ​​with potatoes          and garlic (in an earlier version), cabbage or green cabbage variant (compared with the English bubble and squeak). The Champ consisting of mashed potatoes served with chopped onions.

The most popular fish include salmon and cod, in the field of crustaceans is becoming increasingly popular including prawns and oysters (sometimes served with a glass of Guinness) in some of the dishes, especially the coastal towns.

In the field of grain is well known internationally breadmaking industry and thus have soda bread, or the much celebrated Blaa in Ireland and particularly in Waterford.

Tipic Food

Irish stew, and bacon and cabbage (boiled together). The Boxty is a traditional dish. In Dublin coddle is very popular, which is made with pork sausages cooked. In Ireland is famous Irish breakfast, served mainly pork and fried potato may include farls.

Beverages

One asocidas drinks Guinness in Ireland is often served in pubs, although it is also popular the Smithwicks (which in Europe is generally known as Kilkenny). It is always present the Celtic tradition of cider making. The malt whiskey is well known, and Irish coffee.