Ruth Kyle asked Felicity Hayes-McCoy:

What is your favorite pub, restaraunt, and or cafe on the Dingle Peninsula?

Felicity Hayes-McCoy Gosh, there are so many! You find great pubs and places to eat in Dingle town but I often like to go for places back west. No one visiting the area should miss the museum in Ballyferriter, which has a lovely café and bookshop, and it's always worth keeping an eye out for pubs with the sign 'Ceol Anocht', which means 'Music Tonight' and pretty much guarantees a real night of traditional music. In The House on an Irish Hillside I write about the Pottery Café in Dún Chaoin, which has the sign 'Ionad Ceardaíochta' (meaning Craft Centre) outside it. I also mention Louis Mulcahy's Pottery, which also has a lovely coffee shop. You could check out An Café Liteartha Bookshop in Dingle town too: and keep your eye out for An Canteen restaurant in the same street in Dingle - it has a sign ouside which reads 'Ar scáth a chéile a mairimíd', which is the old Irish proverb I use as one of the chapter titles in The House on an Irish Hillside. It means 'We live in each other's shadows' and expresses the restaurant's commitment to local produce and mutual supportiveness beween farmers, growers, fishers and food providers. I love it because localism and communal supportiveness is a characteristic I greatly admire. ~ Best, Felicity.

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