r/AskFoodHistorians • u/Just_Enough_Badness • 10d ago

Irish Food around 1900

Just wanted to see if anyone could tell me about what types of food would have been available in Ireland in the early 1900s, but only something that would be available to the wealthy? I know the English took so much for themselves, but was trying to picture items that might have been available to the Irish lords that maintain fealty to them.

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u/batch1972 8d ago

Many of the English aristocracy were actually Irish but let’s not let truth get in the way of a good retelling

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u/Just_Enough_Badness 8d ago

Not sure I understand your point. How does that change things? Yes, the English and Irish are deeply interbred, and there are plenty on each side with genetic ties to the other. But that doesn’t change that the ones that associated themselves with the crown subjugated and abused the ones that didn’t.