Category: Announcements


  • Irish Food Writers’ Guild announces new members for 2021

    It is with great pleasure that we announce the addition of four new members to the Irish Food Writers’ Guild in 2021. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial corpus of work. The Guild currently has 70 members.      The new Guild members announced today, Thursday 3 June,…

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  • 2021 Food Awards

    The Irish Food Writers’ Guild Food Awards for 2021 were announced today, with a full press release and list of winners available here. For the first time in its long-established history, the traditional IFWG Food Awards ceremony and lunch featuring all the winning produce was cancelled. However, if there was ever a time to champion…

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  • Irish Food Writers’ Guild announces new members for 2020

    Seven new food writers join the Irish Food Writers’ Guild MEDIA RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE USE. IMAGES ACCESSIBLE VIA DROPBOX. The Irish Food Writers’ Guild has announced the names of the seven new members invited to join the Guild in 2020. Membership is by invitation only to established food writers with an acknowledged and substantial…

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  • 2018 Community Food Award launched

    Social Responsibility tops the agenda for the 2018 Community Award launched today. IFWG annual Community Food Award opens for applications. Nominations are being invited by The Irish Food Writers’ Guild (IFWG) for an important award that recognises individuals, businesses or organisations in Ireland that have embraced an ethos of social responsibility to an outstanding level.…

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  • IFWG Cookbook Sale

    With more than 60 members ranging from cookery authors to broadcasters and journalists, food stylists and recipe developers to magazine editors, the Irish Food Writers’ Guild are a diverse bunch. But if there’s one things that we have in common, it’s got to be a pretty mean collection of cookbooks built up over the years.…

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  • National Awards For Community Food Projects Announced

    An organisation that embodies and protects the richness of Ireland’s agricultural legacy has today been announced as the winner of the 2016 Irish Food Writers’ Guild Community Food Awards. The Irish Seed Savers Association, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary, conserves and distributes rare and heritage seed varieties and encourages the skills of saving…

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  • Irish Gin & Tonic Fest

    Last year, Great Irish Beverages produced Dublin Gin & Tonic Fest – a citywide celebration of Irish gins. For 2016, they are taking the festival  around the entire island of Ireland to all 32 counties! Irish Gin & Tonic Fest is talking place from June 20th – 25th and lots of bars, restaurants and hotels…

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  • Real Bread Ireland & Real Bread Week

    As the mainstream bakery sector gears up to promote their National Bread Week, Real Bread Ireland, the newly-established network of independent Irish craft bakers are set to unveil their own alternative programme of events, Real Bread Week (October 4th-10th). Real Bread Week is a programme of demos, talks, tastings and open days that are free…

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  • Calling All Cooks!

    Dublin Cookery School has launched a new scholarship that gives the opportunity to learn cooking skills and pursue a career in food. Dublin Cookery School, Blackrock, fronted by acclaimed chef Lynda Booth, is offering a scholarship place on its prestigious three-month certificate course this September to one lucky winner. The course is the only type…

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  • The Inaugural Dublin Wine Fest

    Fancy winning yourself a free dinner with wine pairings by correctly answering ten fun wine-based quiz questions over dinner? Or like the sound of complimentary nibbles with a discounted wine-based tipple? Curious to discover the role wine has played in the evolution of cocktails, or to learn about the history of wine-making? Interested in what…

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