Mary Cannon's Commonplace BookThese are just a few samples from an eighteenth century Commonplace Book, passed down the generations from Mary Cannons kitchen to her many times great granddaughter Marjorie Quarton. A Commonplace Book was a scrapbook for sayings, letters, prayers, measurements, or, as in this instance, of recipes. Mary Cannon lived in Dunleary (now Dun Laoghaire) and collected over 120 recipes between 1700 and 1707. They are presented here in sections such as

Him especially

It is not so much a dialect as a language stolen out of the mouths of others and bullied and half-loved into a new condition

abandoned by his wife Suzanne who died before him

he became hugely respected for his skills and was awarded two honorary MA degrees (TCD 1978

and ‘Information for the User’

pirates and traders

The Indignant Muse also includes 177 musical airs and 136 illustrations

Lord Longford

in Dublin he spent his childhood in Athy

It was also shortlisted for the IMPAC International Literary Award and longlisted for the Man Booker Prize

from Jacobite leaders and Huguenot refugees to tales of the Indian Mutiny

suggesting enlightenment – future