Hi folks,
I hope all is well with you in what are the strangest of times. I have a few updates all of which are good news!
Take care of yourself
Fin
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The Irish coffee industry generates hundreds of million of euros every year. This is a pretty recent development - when I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s the only coffee available was instant coffee.
However Ireland's relationship with coffee did not begin in the last twenty years. If anything this is the second or even third wave of coffee culture to hit this country. In this show Iook at the early history of coffee tracing the 17th century origins of the drink in Ireland.
This will take us inside the coffee houses of 18th century Dublin when coffee was an elite drink in society. This episode also lifts the lid on a darker side to the Irish history of coffee – in the second half of the show I interview Cuban researcher Giselle Gonzalez Garcia who is researching the history of an Irish man who became one of the largest coffee producers in Cuba in the early 19th century.