From buttery champ and tender bacon, to homemade soda bread and a sneaky Irish coffee* in the evening, we really make the most of our holidays when it comes to food.
With some of the best dairy, meat and seafood in the world close to hand - not to mention our very famous beverages - we're spoiled for choice when it comes to ingredients.
Here are some of our favourite patriotic recipes for you to try this weekend, and maybe even add into your usual weekday rota.
Mark Moriarty's bacon & cabbage with proper parsley sauce
Rory's Irish coffee meringue with whiskey cream
Shane Smith's Irish soda bread
Eunice Power's chocolate Guinness cake
Rory's traditional Irish salad
Irish stout short ribs with cheesy polenta
Catherine Fulvio's Irish apple cake
