About the Author

Elizabeth FitzPatrick is a professor in archaeology at the School of Geography and Archaeology, NUI Galway, a director of the Discovery Programme and a fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries. Her research and publications concern topographies of power, place-making, landscape and settlement, and concepts of territory, among medieval Gaelic peoples. She was archaeology editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C, 2007-15. James Kelly, MRIA, is Cregan Professor of History and head of the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University. He has served as co-editor of Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, section C since 2008.

Reviews

'[T]he academic Food and Drink in Ireland edited by Elizabeth FitzPatrick and James Kelly [...] shows where we have come from in terms of our eating traditions and habits. Useful for culinary students'.

'If you are what you eat, then Food and Drink in Ireland [...] gives a fascinating insight into who we have been on this island all the way from the early Mesolithic food gatherers through to 20th-century beef eaters and beyond'.
*Aoife Carrigy*

'The contents of this ground-breaking volume offer a "feast" of research’.
*Newsletter (Winter 2016)*