Stephanie Byrne

Professional Cake Designer and Food Historian.
Masters Graduate of Gastronomy and Food Studies, TU Dublin.

[Alan Swan @alanswan]

This is Pan Collins. Pan came up with the idea of the #LateLateToyShow when she pitched the item to Gay Byrne as a researcher in 1975. Now an annual event on @rte that Irish people around the world tune into. Let's raise a glass to Pan tonight 🥂

[Stephanie Byrne @StephBakeswell]

So honoured to be part of this year's Mistletoe magazine with the Irish Independent. Read all about Christmas past in my interview with Aoife Carrigy.

For those who want to delve deeper, have a read of my Folk Life article at https://t.co/0Yii5vkGIl

[Stephanie Byrne @StephBakeswell]

@hanratty_angela @dgs_tudublin Massive congratulations Angela, so well deserved 🥂 and best of luck today!

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

An aithníonn éinne an focal seo?
'Rubastanaigh[?] agus muintir Thoraí'
'Bhí na Rubastanaigh [?] thíos i bPort na Bláiche'

[Blackwater Honey - Irelands Most Awarded Honey @BlackwaterH0ney]

Please email your local TD/Senator and ask for them to prevent the importing of non native honeybees

[Dr Dorothy Cashman @Irish_Cookbooks]

Emerging discussion re grain shortage brought me back to this from 1941, with an afterword by Prof O’Rahilly of UCC. Mrs Wrenne keeps it local with her Muskerry Buns.

[Blackwater Honey - Irelands Most Awarded Honey @BlackwaterH0ney]

A reminder to report any illegal hedge cutting.

[Dr Dorothy Cashman @Irish_Cookbooks]

It’s getting grim out there.
A wartime recipe, one of the more cheerful ones, for ‘Irish Fairy Cakes’ from Mrs Frances Wrenne.

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

St Fintan's Well, Co. Laois.
'Some people have a very firm belief in cures effected at this well and hundreds of tokens may be see hanging around. On the 17th of February - the feast day of the St. crowds visit this well to pay homage to St. Fintan.'
https://t.co/nOpcRsffUT

[Stephanie Byrne @StephBakeswell]

Who needs a dozen roses? Irish flowers, fertility and folklore https://t.co/VzjAHsHxOe via @rte

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

Amhránaíocht: Pat Daly, Ballinclare, Ballycarew, Co. Wexford. Photographed in the home of Tom Munnelly, Holylands, Dublin, January 1977.
https://t.co/4TNz6fAftm

[Achill Tourism, Mayo, Ireland @achilltourism]

We're excited to announce this extremely unique and academically focused event, 4th-6th March. Food played such an important role throughout the ages in Achill, many of those traditions are still being handed down from the generations. #achillisland #amazingachill

[Dr Dorothy Cashman @Irish_Cookbooks]

Newspaper report from 1946. And the rest is #IrishFoodHistory as they say....

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

Oíche Fhéile Bríde, Dún na nGall
'After supper the oldest member of the family goes out for rushes. When he comes back he knocks at the door and says "Foscail an doras agus lig isteach Bríd." Someone inside answers "Sé do bheatha a Bhríd" three times.'
https://t.co/jypW9yws5J

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

'St. Brigid, wishing to be moderate replied, that all she would ask was as much land near her cell as her mantle would cover. St. Brigid spread her mantle on the field and lo! God caused the cloak to extend so that it covered all now known as the Curragh.'
https://t.co/IO2MeKHiHZ

[dúchas.ie @duchas_ie]

We are extremely grateful to all of the Meitheal who have transcribed the Schools' Folklore Collection over the years. There is only 2% of the English material left to transcribe! If you fancy giving it one last go, you can find a story to transcribe here: https://t.co/qw72kRhD1C

[Maïa Dunphy @MaiaDunphy]

A young woman out for a run in the afternoon. I cannot get my head around this. 💔

https://t.co/tGxbh9LwXx

[The Irish Times @IrishTimes]

Neolithic site could change understanding of what beef meant to ancient Irish https://t.co/3YKxQWEEYj

[Stephanie Byrne @StephBakeswell]

Nollaig na mBan shona daoibh 🥂🥳

Though it was customary in Mayo to only eat 12 bites on the Twelfth Night, I think I'll stick with the newer tradition of drinking wine while polishing off the Christmas cake 🥂
https://t.co/EtKnVdqwYA
#irishtradition #folklife #WomensChristmas

[Stephanie Byrne @StephBakeswell]

Quality Control is a very important part of the job!!😁☃️🎄🎅

Homemade mince pies 🤗 using my Great Aunts pastry recipe, which she picked up from the Sisters of Charity in Knock as a girl 🥰

#traditions #mincepieseason #familyrecipes #handeddown