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However, Gerald of Wales wrote in the 12th century that Ireland did not have vines and Bede's claim was inaccurate. Modern wine writer Susan Boyle, meanwhile, argues that wine-stained pottery found at archaeological sites serves as evidence that the ancient Celts introduced wine to Ireland about 500 years before Christ was born. [5]
Ancient Wine: The Search for the Origins of Viniculture. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0691127842. Patrick E. McGovern (2010). Uncorking the Past: The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages. University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520267985. Emlyn K. Dodd (2020). Roman and Late Antique wine production in the eastern ...
Successful books which were published by Mitchell Beazley were The Joy of Sex by Alex Comfort and the Pocket Wine Book by wine expert Hugh Johnson. Johnson's first wine guide was published in 1977. Since then it is published annually. In May 1987, Mitchell Beazley became part of the Octopus Publishing Group.
The World Atlas of Wine by Hugh Johnson and (since 2003) Jancis Robinson, MW, is an atlas and reference work on the world of wine, published by Mitchell Beazley.It pioneered the use of wine-specific cartography to give wine a sense of place, and has since the first edition published in 1971 sold 4 million copies in 14 languages. [1]
[4] [3] The couple later established Cahill and Company, a mail-order book company, in 1976. [1] [3] Cahill served as the North American education correspondent for The Times of London, and was for many years a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review. [4] He was also a contributor to the magazine Irish America. [3]
In Frank McCourt's book 'Tis, he recalls his mother Angela telling him that when his brother Malachy visited her in Limerick, he obtained poitín in the countryside and drank it with her. Some traditional Irish folk songs, such as The Hills of Connemara and The Rare Old Mountain Dew , deal with the subject of poitín.
Thomas Pinney (born April 23, 1932) is an American English scholar known for his work collecting the letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay and Rudyard Kipling, as well as a wine scholar known for his two-volume history of wine in the U.S. [1] He is an emeritus professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, California, having previously held the Spalding Professor and William M. Keck ...
History Ireland is a magazine with a focus on the history of Ireland. The first issue of the magazine appeared in Spring 1993. [1] It went full-colour in 2004 and since 2005 it is published bi-monthly. [2] It features articles by a range of writers and book reviews.