Writing

Writing for artist Deirdre O’Mahony

Interviews with farmers and editorial article for ‘The Quickening’ newspaper (March 2024), a paper about farming, food production and food policy as part of ‘The Quickening’ exhibition by Deirdre O’Mahony at the Douglas Hyde gallery

Deirdre O’Mahony and The PLOT 1 at VISUAL Carlow (2021) Article on artist Deirdre O’Mahony’s PLOT 1 sainfoin planting at VISUAL, part of her Sustainment Experiments project.

Char Magazine and District’s Guide to Dublin City

Features and interviews for online food publication Char, print magazine District’s Guide to Dublin City & District online

• For the love of Buckfast: how we came to love tonic wine (Dec 2021)

• How Hennessy became rap’s favourite drink (Jun 2021)

• Thinking outside the bin: getting creative about food waste (Nov 2020)

• Jonathan Trayte: meeting the artist making psychedelic sculptures of fruit and veg (Nov 2020)

• Mysteries of the deli: the jambon (Oct 2020)

• Starter cultures: a primer on fermentation in Dublin (Oct 2020)

• Sweet dreams are made of cheese (Oct 2020)

• Firing it up at Variety Jones (Oct 2020)

• Na Séasúir: The pop-up serving up tongues and tripe (June 2019)

• The ethics of curiousity: interview with Jon Ronson (May 2019)

• Chef in focus: Holly Dalton (May 2019)

• Salad days: interview with Clair Dowling of Tiller and Grain (May 2019)

• Making space: interview with Jennie Moran of Luncheonette (Apr 2019)

• Lil Portie comes home: interview with Nick Reynolds (Sep 2018)

• Reproduction itself becomes more important than what is reproduced (Aug 2017)

Feast Journal

Caitríona was a contributing editor for FEAST Journal until 2021. FEAST was set up by Laura Mansfield and has evolved from a series of printed publications to include events, exhibitions and artists commissions centred around the making, sharing and consuming of food. Selected articles:

• Mixing it up: learning English through food with Heart & Parcel (Jan 2021)

• Preserving salts: on culinary salt (Feb 2020)

• Salt shakers: on salt in cocktails (Feb 2020)

• Bittersweet beet: a history of Irish sugar (July 2019)

• The sweetest feeling, with Stephen Barrett (July 2019)

• Playing chicken: on London’s Chicken Connoisseur (July 2018)

• “From the kitchen to the table to the streets”. The meal as a tool for social justice, with Laura Mansfield (2017)

• Restaurants and cafes: publics and politics (2017)

Ireland Eats

• Irish Bakeries: The Griddle Bread Revival (Sept 2022)

• West Cork’s Weird and Wonderful Singing Frog Gardens (Nov 2021)

• West Cork Wasabi (Nov 2021)

Rabble magazine

Selected articles:

• Shout shout, let it all out feature on The Screamers (Sep 2018)

• Social Fabric exhibition, curated by Kathryn Maguire (May 2018)

• Shitty city, interview with Lorcan Sirr (May 2018)

• Let’s talk about sex, interview with Ruth Coppinger (Mar 2018)

• Season of the witch, interview with Jesse Jones (Feb 2018)

• Buzzin for Busaras, interview with Gavin Murphy (Nov 2017)

• The protesting crowd, inteview with Joy Gerrard (Jun 2017)

• Frontier Psychiatry, inteview with Alan Gilsenan on Ivor Browne documentary (Jun 2017)

How Fine A Mess

How Fine A Mess was ‘a quarterly journal for chefs, brewers, growers, creators and everyone who consumes the good stuff’, composed by Sheffield’s Dust and printed by ASAP Digital. All issues can be viewed here.

Local history

The Story of Brickmaking in Pollagh, County Offaly (Dec 2019)

Local history book written with Pollagh Heritage Group, supported by Offaly County Council. This short book details the evolution of the village of Pollagh as shaped by its brickmaking industry which flourished alongside the Grand Canal in the nineteenth century. The book gathers together interviews, written records, archival materials and photographs and provides insights into the origins of the industry, the brickmaking process, the expansion of the canal, how the bricks were transported and sold, their uses in Offaly and in Dublin, and how the industry came to decline. It showcases a unique heritage and documents the determination and hard work that was a necessary part of survival for Pollagh families in the nineteenth century and beyond.

Academic

Simo Häyrynen, Caitriona Devery, Aparajita Banerjee (2021) ‘Contested Bogs in Ireland: A Viewpoint on Climate Change Responsiveness in Local Culture’ in Grit Martinez (ed), Culture and Climate Resilience Perspectives from Europe. Palgrave Macmillan.