Ireland Holidays

Every family seems to have its own recipe for soda bread, and no breakfast would be complete without a delicious slice or two of white pudding (a grain and pork sausage very similar to the black pudding it almost always accompanies). But hidden behind those world famous Irish flavours you’ll also find a host of regional delicacies.

Warm up with a simple bowl of Coddle brimming with bacon, potatoes and sausages on a cold day in Dublin. Galway has an annual oyster festival, and salmon from the Burren, Connemara and Haven smokehouses have built quite the foodie following in recent years. Lovers of seafood should head to County Galway, country’s best oysters. Try the quintessential Dublin dish of cockles in the heart of the city. For a hearty meal, try coddle – a true mark of a Dublin tradition.

There are some food so closely tied to Ireland that they’ve shaped the world’s view of the country. Guinness, whiskey, colcannon, boiled bacon and Irish stew in particular are five flavours inseparable from the idea of Irishness. No trip to Dublin is complete without a taste of ‘the black stuff’, so visit the Guinness Storehouse.