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A white bowl of creamy seafood chowder with chunks of salmon and white fish, carrots, peas and fresh parsley, with a spoon resting in it

Irish Seafood Chowder Recipe: The Creamy Pub Bowl Served With Brown Bread

A creamy Irish seafood chowder recipe in metric and US measures: natural smoked haddock, salmon or white fish, mussels and prawns in a leek and potato base with milk and cream, served with brown bread. Plus US shopping notes (finnan haddie, shrimp vs Dublin Bay prawns), a slow cooker method, storage advice, how Irish chowder differs from New England clam chowder, where the word chowder comes from, why chowder never turns up in the 1930s Schools’ Collection, and the fishing heritage of Kinsale and Galway’s Claddagh.

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Dry stone walls criss-crossing green fields on Inis Meáin, with small stone barns and the sea beyond under a cloudy blue sky

The Aran Sweater: Its Real History, the Drowned Fisherman Myth and What the Stitches Mean

The Aran sweater is younger than its legends. Here’s how knitters on the Aran Islands and along Ireland’s west coast created the cabled geansaí Árann in the early 20th century, where the drowned fisherman myth and the ‘ancient’ stitch meanings really came from, how the Clancy Brothers helped make it famous on The Ed Sullivan Show in 1961, and how to spot a hand-knit, wash it and buy from authentic Irish makers.

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