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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

NEW COURSE LAUNCH @ucc.ie Food Heritage in Action:Turning Tradition into Sustainable Enterprise with Dr Bill Schindler. This timely course will be of interest to those working in food tourism, food production + food business development. Full details ace.open.ucc.ie/courses/ace2...

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

It was a lovely pleasure to take part in the BBC Food Programme’s Butter is Back. Thank you to food writer, Felicity Cloake, and producer Robin Markwell. You can listen here www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Writing this piece about blackberries brought back memories, memories that many of us remember almost as a collective, but alongside the familiar are the less well-known worlds of the blackberry. See link below 👇🔻

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

All you need to know about the blackberry season. The blackberry is a plant of notable cultural significance in Ireland, not least in its ability to evoke all sorts of emotional memories and nostalgia, writes @culinaryireland.bsky.social @ucc.ie www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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All you need to know about the blackberry season

The blackberry is a plant of notable cultural significance in Ireland, not least in its ability to evoke emotional memories and nostalgia

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Starting again this September UCC’s MA & Postgraduate Diploma in Food Studies & Irish Foodways. For contact details & full info. ucc.ie/en/ace-pdfif/ & ucc.ie/en/ace-mafif/ With a special thank you to our funding partner, Taste4Success Skillnet for their generous support.

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old. @marionmcgarry.bsky.social looks at the history of and traditions around the day known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Why the last Sunday in July was celebrated in Ireland of old

Known as Garland Sunday, Bilberry Sunday or Reek Sunday, it was a day to mark the end of Hungry July and anticipate the harvest to come

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Today is Bilberry Sunday a day that traditionally celebrated the (near) end of the bilberry season & the beginning of the new potato season. My piece is over on @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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It's Bilberry Sunday this weekend but have you ever eaten one?

The bilberry was an important feature of activities, games, food and entertainments associated with the festival of Lughnasa

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RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Most read on #RTEBrainstorm: it's Bilberry Sunday tomorrow, but have you ever eaten one? @culinaryireland.bsky.social @ucc.ie delves into the history of why the fruit was an important feature of activities, games and entertainments associated with the festival of Lughnasa www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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It's Bilberry Sunday this weekend but have you ever eaten one?

The bilberry was an important feature of activities, games, food and entertainments associated with the festival of Lughnasa

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

After almost 25 years at the Cork Butter Museum Peter Foynes retired this weekend. He was an intrinsic part of the museum-his work there elevated its reputation & popularised our understanding of Ireland’s butter heritage. Peter was the soul & spirit of the museum & he will be missed.

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

For anyone interested in Irish food culture now + in the recent past, health, wellbeing + how we might design approaches to consumption + dietary behaviours, this event is not to be missed eventbrite.ie/e/university-c…

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

This year's memorial lecture is by Prof Jens Walter School of Microbiology + Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre (APC) UCC. His lecture is ‘Can Food Be Both Tasty & Healthy? A Scientific Take on Myrtle Allen’s Food Philosophy’ All welcome but booking essential eventbrite.ie/e/university-c…

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Food on Saint Patrick’s Day, a liturgical feast day and the national holiday, is a multilayered topic. Some further detail here in a little piece I wrote for RTÉ Brainstorm @rtebrainstorm.bsky.social www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2...

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I’m over on @newstalkfm.bsky.social later this morning, c. 10.50 talking about the topic of food and its interesting profile on Saint Patrick’s Day.

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Very happy to have contributed this piece to @theconversation.com It takes a speculative look at what the saint may have eaten based on evidence from early + later medieval sources. And no it's not corned beef and cabbage but as it's food, it's always complicated theconversation.com/what-food-di...

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Regina Sexton @culinaryireland.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I’m new here, so a little bit of what I do. I’m a food and culinary historian concentrating mainly on Ireland at @ucc.bsky.social where I manage the MA in Food Studies and Irish Foodways- see here 𝐅𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐃𝐈𝐄𝐒 𝐀𝐓 𝐔𝐂𝐂: ucc.ie/en/ace-pdfif/

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Food Studies and Irish Foodways | University College Cork

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