Honest Claret; The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland's Favourite Wine

ISBN-13: 9781800797901 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 334 str.

Eamon Maher; Tara McConnell

Opis

Looks back to earliest times to trace the story of how and why Claret, a French wine, became what Jonathan Swift fondly called «Irish wine».

Spis treści

Contents: Wine in Ireland from Pre- Christian Times to the Late - The World of Ireland's Georgian Elite - Claret in Eighteenth- Century Ireland

O autorze

Tara McConnell is a food historian with a particular interest in drinking studies and material culture in eighteenth-century Ireland. As a long-time Francophile and wine-lover she was irresistibly drawn to researching the role of claret in the lives of the Georgian elite.