The History of Coffee Part I (1000-1845)
Irish History Podcast
Fin Dwyer
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 30 March 2020
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
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 20 years. If anything this is the second or even third wave of coffee culture to hit this country. In this show I Iook at the early history of coffee tracing the origins of the drink in Ireland back to the 17th century
This will bring 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.
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| 0:00.0 | Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey. |
| 0:11.0 | So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas. |
| 0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Coffee in Ireland is an enormous industry today bringing in hundreds of millions of euros every year. |
| 0:31.0 | This modern industry is a pretty recent development. |
| 0:33.8 | When I was growing up in the 1980s and 1990s the only coffee available was really |
| 0:38.4 | only instant coffee. However Ireland's relationship with coffee did not begin in the last 20 years. |
| 0:44.6 | If anything, we're living through the second or even third wave of coffee culture to hit this country. |
| 0:50.0 | In this the first of two episodes on the Irish history of coffee I'll be tracing the origins of coffee in Ireland |
| 0:56.8 | This will take us inside coffee houses in 18th century Dublin when coffee was an elite drink in society. We will also lift the lid on a darker |
| 1:05.6 | side to the Irish history of coffee. In the second half of the show we will head to Cuba to |
| 1:10.6 | look at the story of an Irish man who became one of the largest coffee producers in Cuba in the later 19th century. |
| 1:20.0 | Hello and welcome to the Irish History Podcast. My name is Finn Duwara and this is an Irish |
| 1:28.0 | history of coffee part one. I hope this finds you well and that you're slowly adjusting to this new reality we're all living through. |
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| 1:46.0 | Thanks for the support, it means an awful lot and makes such a big difference. |
| 1:50.0 | As a way of saying thanks, patrons of the show now have access to a weekly bonus series on |
| 1:55.0 | medieval life as well as access to my two audio books, 1348 a medieval apocalypse and another |
| 2:01.5 | on the life of Brian Baru. You can find out more at Patreon.com |
| 2:05.4 | forward slash Irish podcast. Now to the Irish history of coffee. While coffee dominates the world today it has very humble origins and while so many |
| 2:19.4 | Irish people start today with a cup of. The story begins far from Ireland. |
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