Corned Beef's Popularity Among Irish Americans During The Great Hunger, a period of colonial violence against Ireland by the English government, many Irish people had to flee their homes to other ...

“I don’t know anybody who serves corned beef in Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day,” Myrtle Allen, the famed Irish chef often credited with “the revolution in Irish food,” told the ...

But it's not. While cabbage is a traditional food item in Ireland, corned beef is not. It was originally used as a substitute for bacon by Irish- American immigrants in the late 1800's.

The corned beef the Irish immigrants ate was much different from that produced in Ireland 200 years prior, the Smithsonian said. Irish immigrants to the U.S. almost solely bought their meat from ...

It's true. While cabbage is a traditional food item in Ireland, corned beef is not. It was originally used as a substitute for bacon by Irish-American immigrants in the late 1800’s.