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Full & Plenty: Classic Irish Cooking
Featuring advice and wonderful anecdotes from the original edition and including over 100 classic Irish recipes with everything from wholemeal brown bread, fruit scones and baked custard to lamb stew, beef pot-roast and roast chicken, Full & Classic Irish Cooking is an excellent addition to the cookery book shelf of any kitchen. The original Full & Plenty was published as a single volume book in 1960. It was the definitive reference book in every Irish kitchen. In this newly formatted and redesigned hardback, Mercier Press brings a selection of these classic Irish recipes to a whole new audience. ""A worthwhile book for the seasoned writer."" Library Journal
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162 pages, Paperback
First published September 14, 2001
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Maura Laverty
39 books6 followersMaura Laverty (née Kelly; 1907 - 26 July 1966) was an Irish author, journalist and broadcaster known for her work on Irish soap opera Tolka Row. She published several novels, short stories and critical pieces throughout her career.
Born in Rathangan, County Kildare in Ireland, Laverty was educated at Brigidine Convent, Carlow, where she studied teacher-training.[1] She later moved to Spain, taking up the position of governess and later secretary to Princess Bibesco and eventually becoming a foreign correspondent based within Madrid. Laverty returned to Ireland for the remainder of her career and worked as a journalist and broadcaster in Dublin for the national radio station, RTÉ.
Upon her return to Ireland she married the journalist James Laverty in 1928. They had three children,[2] one of whom was the artist Barry Castle (see Barry and Philip Castle) who illustrated some of her mother's work (See below, the Queen of Aran's Daughter.).
Her first novel Never No More was published to widespread acclaim in 1942. It was based in County Kildare, drawing heavily on personal experiences during her time in Derrymore House.[3] Laverty would follow this with such works as Touched by the Thorn (1943) and Alone We Embark (1943). Two of her books were banned in the Republic of Ireland, including her second, the semi-autobiographical No More than Human, which apparently offended the censor because of its frankness about the female body.[2]
She is well known as the writer of RTÉ's Tolka Row, the station's first soap opera that ran between 1964–68, itself largely an adaptation of her play Liffey Lane. Laverty also wrote numerous children's stories including The Cottage in the Bog (1946) and The Green Orchard (1949).[2]
Born in Rathangan, County Kildare in Ireland, Laverty was educated at Brigidine Convent, Carlow, where she studied teacher-training.[1] She later moved to Spain, taking up the position of governess and later secretary to Princess Bibesco and eventually becoming a foreign correspondent based within Madrid. Laverty returned to Ireland for the remainder of her career and worked as a journalist and broadcaster in Dublin for the national radio station, RTÉ.
Upon her return to Ireland she married the journalist James Laverty in 1928. They had three children,[2] one of whom was the artist Barry Castle (see Barry and Philip Castle) who illustrated some of her mother's work (See below, the Queen of Aran's Daughter.).
Her first novel Never No More was published to widespread acclaim in 1942. It was based in County Kildare, drawing heavily on personal experiences during her time in Derrymore House.[3] Laverty would follow this with such works as Touched by the Thorn (1943) and Alone We Embark (1943). Two of her books were banned in the Republic of Ireland, including her second, the semi-autobiographical No More than Human, which apparently offended the censor because of its frankness about the female body.[2]
She is well known as the writer of RTÉ's Tolka Row, the station's first soap opera that ran between 1964–68, itself largely an adaptation of her play Liffey Lane. Laverty also wrote numerous children's stories including The Cottage in the Bog (1946) and The Green Orchard (1949).[2]
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February 15, 2012
This classic Irish cookery book from a largely ignored cookery writer/novelist/playright/broadcaster - and original 1940's renaissance women the legend Maura Laverty -still has no equal. And the personal stories at the beginning of each chapter are great, harking back to days when we called into each other's kitchens and still coked all our dinners from scratch with ingredients from our own gardens. My dog-eared copy was inherited by an aunt, but thankfully it is still in print so I have a stack of them that I give as gifts as for anyone who is interested in good, home cooking.
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