Brewing Power: Food & Drink in 16th Century Ireland, Adventures in 16th Century

A six-part interactive public lecture series at Dublin Castle, 6-21 February 2026.

Dublin Castle presents a six-part lecture series exploring how food and drink shaped everyday life, social relationships and authority in the sixteenth-century Ireland. The series draws on new research conducted by the FoodCult project led by Dublin Trinity historian Dr Susan Flavin, with Co-Investigator Shreepali Patel amongst others. The project moves between the kitches of Dublin Castle and the reconstructed Tudor brew houses combining history, science, archaeology, craft and film.

the project demonstrates how food offers a powerful way of understanding lived experience in the past.

FoodCult is an interdiscplinary research project funded by the ERC.