Congrats Gerry on a lovely piece! One of our MA Gastronomy and Food Studies students in TU Dublin is currently investigating Coddle for her thesis and it is much more prevalent than you might think. I feel that the tradition is safe. Although Ronnie Drew or Damo may not have sung about coddle, it has been immortalised by the Merry Ploughboys in their song 'Sam is coming home' in that 'he missed the anna liffey, the coddle and the craic...' and alos in Stephen James Smith 'Dublin you are'.
Congrats Gerry on a lovely piece! One of our MA Gastronomy and Food Studies students in TU Dublin is currently investigating Coddle for her thesis and it is much more prevalent than you might think. I feel that the tradition is safe. Although Ronnie Drew or Damo may not have sung about coddle, it has been immortalised by the Merry Ploughboys in their song 'Sam is coming home' in that 'he missed the anna liffey, the coddle and the craic...' and alos in Stephen James Smith 'Dublin you are'.
Terrific read. Very well put. Thx
Thank you Mairtin. You are uniquely qualified to triangulate the place of coddle in Irish music and gastronomy!