Congratulations to Dr Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, senior lecturer in the School of Culinary Arts & Food Technology at TU Dublin / OT Baile Átha Cliath, for being awarded a Research Ally Prize as part of the IRC Researcher of the Year 2021 awards! #tudublinfood #foodstudies tudublin.ie/explore/news/t…

Quality Control is a very important part of the job!!😁☃️🎄🎅 Homemade mince pies 🤗 using my Great Aunts pastry recipe, which she picked up from the Sisters of Charity in Knock as a girl 🥰 #traditions #mincepieseason #familyrecipes #handeddown

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh 🥂🥳 Though it was customary in Mayo to only eat 12 bites on the Twelfth Night, I think I'll stick with the newer tradition of drinking wine while polishing off the Christmas cake 🥂 arrow.tudublin.ie/creaart/20/ #irishtradition #folklife #WomensChristmas

Neolithic site could change understanding of what beef meant to ancient Irish irishtimes.com/news/science/n…

A young woman out for a run in the afternoon. I cannot get my head around this. 💔 rte.ie/news/leinster/…

We are extremely grateful to all of the Meitheal who have transcribed the Schools' Folklore Collection over the years. There is only 2% of the English material left to transcribe! If you fancy giving it one last go, you can find a story to transcribe here: duchas.ie/en/meitheal

We're excited to announce this extremely unique and academically focused event, 4th-6th March. Food played such an important role throughout the ages in Achill, many of those traditions are still being handed down from the generations. #achillisland #amazingachill

Oíche Fhéile Bríde, Dún na nGall 'After supper the oldest member of the family goes out for rushes. When he comes back he knocks at the door and says "Foscail an doras agus lig isteach Bríd." Someone inside answers "Sé do bheatha a Bhríd" three times.' duchas.ie/en/cbes/449362…

'St. Brigid, wishing to be moderate replied, that all she would ask was as much land near her cell as her mantle would cover. St. Brigid spread her mantle on the field and lo! God caused the cloak to extend so that it covered all now known as the Curragh.' duchas.ie/en/cbes/476996…

Newspaper report from 1946. And the rest is #IrishFoodHistory as they say....

Amhránaíocht: Pat Daly, Ballinclare, Ballycarew, Co. Wexford. Photographed in the home of Tom Munnelly, Holylands, Dublin, January 1977. duchas.ie/en/cbeg/47772

Who needs a dozen roses? Irish flowers, fertility and folklore rte.ie/gaeilge/2022/0… via RTÉ

St Fintan's Well, Co. Laois. 'Some people have a very firm belief in cures effected at this well and hundreds of tokens may be see hanging around. On the 17th of February - the feast day of the St. crowds visit this well to pay homage to St. Fintan.' duchas.ie/ga/src?q=17%C3…

It’s getting grim out there. A wartime recipe, one of the more cheerful ones, for ‘Irish Fairy Cakes’ from Mrs Frances Wrenne.

A reminder to report any illegal hedge cutting.

Emerging discussion re grain shortage brought me back to this from 1941, with an afterword by Prof O’Rahilly of UCC. Mrs Wrenne keeps it local with her Muskerry Buns.

Please email your local TD/Senator and ask for them to prevent the importing of non native honeybees

An aithníonn éinne an focal seo? 'Rubastanaigh[?] agus muintir Thoraí' 'Bhí na Rubastanaigh [?] thíos i bPort na Bláiche'

So honoured to be part of this year's Mistletoe magazine with the Irish Independent. Read all about Christmas past in my interview with Aoife Carrigy. For those who want to delve deeper, have a read of my Folk Life article at tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is Pan Collins. Pan came up with the idea of the #LateLateToyShow when she pitched the item to Gay Byrne as a researcher in 1975. Now an annual event on RTÉ that Irish people around the world tune into. Let's raise a glass to Pan tonight 🥂