Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Section I Literary Representations of Irish Gastronomy -- Dorothy Cashman 'That delicate sweetmeat, the Irish plum': The Culinary World of Maria Edgeworth (1 -- Flicka Small 'Know Me Come Eat With Me': What Food Says about Leopold Bloom -- Michael Flanagan Cowpie, Gruel and Midnight Feasts: The Representation of Food in Popular Children' -- Eamon Maher The Rituals of Food and Drink in the Work of John McGahern -- Rhona Richman Kenneally The Elusive Landscape of History: Food and Empowerment in Sebastian Barry' -- Section II Culinary and Dining Traditions in Ireland -- Tony Kiely 'We Managed': Reflections on the Culinary Practices of Dublin's Working Class Poor in -- Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire 'From Jammet's to Guilbaud's': The Influence of French Haute Cuisine on t -- Marjorie Deleuze A New Craze for Food: Why is Ireland Turning into a Foodie Nation? -- John Mulcahy Transforming Ireland through Gastronomic Nationalism -- Section III Drink and Be Merry - Beer, Pubs and the Irish Psyche -- Tara McConnell 'Brew as much as possible during the proper season': Beer Consumption in Elite Househ -- Brian Murphy The Irish Pub Abroad: Lessons in the Commodification of Gastronomic Culture -- Eugene O'Brien Bloomsday and Arthur's Day: Secular Sacraments as Symbolic and Cultural Capital -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.