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What foods do Irish people eat?

This question is one that brings people to our website all the time. (By the way, if you're here looking for an answer to the question "What is the Irish national dish?", the short answer is probably, "Sorry, there really isn't one..." -- but we're shortly going to be enlisting the help of the Irish media to help us find out if there really is one, these days... or ever was. If you're thinking that the Irish national dish is corned beef and cabbage, we're sorry to tell you that it's not, and never has been: please go to this page for an explanation as to why. It might be the Irish-American national dish...but here it's nowhere near as popular as a real national dish would be.)

Memories of the past

Many North Americans' ideas about Ireland's food and what Irish people eat have been shaped by images of a long-lost past, or stories older relatives have told them -- especially their grandparents...