Recipe Exchange and Women’s Kinship Networks in Ascendancy Ireland

TITLE PAGE FROM ‘A COLLECTION OF DOMESTIC RECIPES AND MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS,’ CONTRIBUTED TO BY MULTIPLE MEMBERS OF THE INCHIQUIN O’BRIEN FAMILY, STARTED MID- TO LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, INCHIQUIN PAPERS, MS 14,786. COURTESY OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF IRELAND.

Are you looking for some new reading material for 2022?

You may want to try Lilith: A Feminist History Journal.

Lilith is this year’s issue of The Australian National University Press’ journal and it covers a rich variety of topics.

Chapter 2 is written by our very own Dr Madeline Shanahan: ‘Wright by Her Own Hand: Recipe Exchange and Women’s Kinship Networks in Ascendancy Ireland, 1660 - 1830.’

You can read the full-length version of Madeline’s article in the 2021 open-access edition of Lilith or start with the excerpts and summary in this article from the Australian Women’s History Network below.