Honest Claret

Description:

"... a riveting account of the historical significance of wine in Ireland from earliest times up to the end of the Georgian era. Drawing on a wide range of period resources, the social meanings and gastronomic preeminence of claret in the lives of Georgian Ireland's elite is cogently established." Dr. Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire, Chair, MA Gastronomy and Food Studies, TU Dublin

subjects: wine,  Ireland,  Georgian,  Eighteenth century,  claret,  Bordeaux,  Gastronomy

People: Jonathan Swift (1667-1745),  Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826),  Nathaniel Sneyd,  Barton & Guestier,  Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-1798),  Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 4th Earl of (1694-1773),  Saint Patrick,  Charles II King of England (1630-1685),  Dorothea Herbert (1770-1829),  Mary (Granville) Pendarves Delany (1700-1788),  George IV King of Great Britain (1762-1830).

Places: Dublin,  Cork,  Waterford,  Bordeaux,  Ireland,  Atlantic World

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