In the final episode of this series, Maria Zukovs discusses her research on Franco-Irish relations with Dr. Jacob Baxter.

Maria Zukovs is a final year PhD candidate in the School of History at the University of St Andrews. Her research focuses on Dublin press coverage of the French Revolution. It seeks to understand what, if any, impact the French Revolution had on contemporaneous Dublin society, politics and culture. Maria has been the recipient of grants and bursaries from the Society for the Study of French History, the Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society and Marsh's Library.

Jacob Baxter is the Deputy Director of the Universal Short Title Catalogue at the University of St Andrews. He defended his PhD, which focused on the English diplomat Sir William Temple, in April 2024. Jacob's research interests include statement, readers and copyright.

In this episode, Dr Olivia Frehill and Dr Sarah Roddy discuss the topic of methodolody and historical research.

Dr Olivia Frehill recently completed a funded PhD in History at Trinity College Dublin entitled 'Silhouettes in a City: Women, Work and Welfare in Dublin, c.1890-1930s'. She has published on some of her research in outlets such as Irish Economic and Social History and RTE Brainstorm. She currently works as a research assistant and teaching assistant. Dr Sarah Roddy is an Associate Professor in Modern Irish Social History. Before arriving at Maynooth in January 2021, she spent 9 years as, successively, Research Assistant, Hallsworth Research Fellow, Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History at the University of Manchester. Her doctorate and MA were completed at Queen's University Belfast, and my undergraduate degree in History and Politics is from the University of Limerick.
Dr Roddy's research interests lie in modern Irish and British social, economic and religious history. Her current project, entitled 'Visible Divinity: Money and Irish Catholicism, 1850-1921', is a transnational examination of the financial relationship between the Irish Catholic Church and its laity, and was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council in the UK; a monograph is under contract with Cambridge University Press.

In this week's episode, Keely Farrell and Kate Ryan adopt a gender approach to the history of food, in particular butter making in Ireland.

Keely Farrell is a postgraduate student at Trinity College Dublin studying Public History and Cultural Heritage. Inspiration for this episode came from a paper written for a course titled, Food, Drink and European Cultural Identities. In a similar realm, Keely has worked at Spritmuseum, a museum centering on the cultural history of drinking in Sweden and has developed tour content on Christmas food traditions at the Montclair History Center in New Jersey. She is a member of Phi Alpha Theta, a History Honor Society in the U.S. Most of her research focuses on early African American and U.S. history with a recent dissertation on the public involvement in searching for and discovering slave shipwrecks globally.

Kate Ryan is a multi-award-winning food writer and founder of Flavour.ie, a platform dedicated to promoting Irish Food. Kate is a food features writer for The Echo and The Irish Examiner newspapers, and her articles have also featured with BBC, Vittles, Sunday Business Post, Food & Wine Magazine (Ireland), Scoop Food Magazine, among many others in print and online. She also writes on her blog, The Flavour Files. In 2017, she published 'A taste of west Cork - artisan food guide”, a project funded by Cork County Council and Taste Cork.

Her paper 'Perfectly civilised and proper' – the social and cultural history of blood as food in Ireland was selected for inclusion in the Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2023.

She is a member and current Treasurer of the Irish Food Writers’ Guild, a judge for Blas na hÉireann, Great Taste Awards, Irish Quality Food Awards, National Dairy Awards and Restaurant of the Year Awards.

Kate holds First Class (Honours) in UCC's MA in Food Studies and Irish Foodways and Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Food Culture.

In 2023, Kate was named the Blas na hÉireann Irish Food Producers Champion and bestowed the inaugural award for Food Storyteller of the Year by Listowel Food Fair. In 2022, she was awarded an Irish Food Writing Award for the Food Writing category.