Irish cuisine can be divided into two main categories – traditional, mainly simple dishes, and more modern dishes, as served in restaurants and hotels.Colcannon is a good dish made of potato and one of wild garlic (the earliest form), cabbage or curly kale, (compare bubble and squeak). Champ consists of mashed potato into which chopped scallions (spring onions) are mixed.Other examples of simple Irish meals are Irish stew, and also bacon and cabbage (boiled together in water). Boxty, a type of potato pancake, is another traditional dish. A dish mostly particular to Dublin is coddle, which involves boiled pork sausages. Ireland is famous for the Irish breakfast, a fried (or grilled) meal generally comprising bacon, egg, sausage, black and white pudding, fried tomato and which may also include fried potato farls or fried potato slices.While seafood has always been consumed by Irish people, shellfish dishes have increased in popularity in recent times, especially due to the high quality of shellfish available from Ireland's coastline, e.g. Dublin Bay Prawns, Oysters (many oyster festivals are held annually around the coast where oysters are often served with Guinness, the most notable being held in Galway every September ) as well as other crustaceans. Salmon and cod are perhaps the two most common types of fish used.Traditional Irish breads include soda bread, wheaten bread, soda farls, and blaa, a doughy white bread roll particular to Waterford.

Just to let the world know about the blog dedicated to The Claddagh. (Location is http://CladdaghBlog.com).The Claddagh ring is a traditional Irish ring, given in friendship or worn as a wedding ring. The Claddagh's distinctive design features two hands clasping a heart, and usually surmounted by a crown, symbolizing love, loyalty and friend.

This is a rare tradition, but my father was from an English-Irish Scottish background and he ate cabbage and sewed two new pillowcases on each New Year's Day. I struggled for years to understand this, but learned it's meaning. It was not at all what I expected...but it was fun.

I love this band.... I guess they're to bluegrass what Flogging Molly is to traditional irish music

While Celtic jewelry may be most popular among individuals of Irish decent, anyone is free to love and enjoy this enchanting jewelry and many do. Frequently Celtic wedding bands are selected as an alternative to more traditional wedding rings. In many cases owners of Celtic jewelry choose to have their ring engraved. This style of Celtic wedding b

In general the origin of Halloween lies in the traditions of the Celtic people. It was a special day the Celtscelebrated near the end of our month of October. Irish, Scots, Calan Gaeaf in Welsh and other immigrants brought versions of the traditions to North America in the 19th century. This day was devoted to 'Samhain', a Celtic God of the Dead