Tara McConnell is a historian with a special interest in the food history of early modern & modern Ireland. Tara has presented and published papers on Irish food history at conferences including the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, Oxford ; the Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, Dublin); the joint CAIS/ACIS Conference, ‘Latitudes: Irish Studies in an International Context’, UCD, Dublin (2014); the Annual Conference of the Association of Franco-Irish Studies (AFIS); the IEHCA Conference on Food History and Food Studies, Tours; The Irish Community of Bordeaux in the 18th Century: Contributions and Contexts/La Communauté Irlandaise à Bordeaux au 18ème Siècle: Contributions et Contextes, Bordeaux (conference, 2017). A monograph based on her doctoral research was published in 2022 by Peter Lang (‘Honest Claret’: The Social Meaning of Georgian Ireland’s Favourite Wine). Tara’s published papers include the following: McConnell, T. (2014). ‘Ireland in the Georgian Era: Was There Any Kingdom in Europe So Good a Customer at Bordeaux?’ in Ben Keatinge and Mary Pierse (eds.), France and Ireland in the Public Imagination (Bern, Peter Lang), 223-240, McConnell, T. (2014). ‘ “Brew as much as possible during the proper season”: Beer Consumption in Elite Households in Eighteenth-Century Ireland’ in Máirtín Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher (eds.), ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture (Bern, Peter Lang), 177-90, McConnell (Kellaghan), T. (2014). ‘An Examination of Elite Consumption Trends in Ceramic Tableware in Georgian Ireland’ in Mark McWilliams (ed.), Food and Material Culture: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, 2013 (Totnes, Devon, Prospect Books), 197-207.