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Corned Beef and Cabbage or Col cannon. Col-cannon is mashed potatoes with diced cooked cabbage mixed in. Get a recipe from Food Network. Tyler Florence made it.

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Try a dessert that we call "Irish Potatoes". Mix an 8 ounce brick of cream cheese with two cups of powdered sugar and a bag of sweetened shredded coconut. Mix it together really well and form it into small potato shapes about the size of a chocolate Cadbury egg (much smaller than a normal potato...enough for it to be bite sized) and roll the 'potato' in ground cinnamon.

Since it's for the school, I think its better to send something like a cake or bread instead of stews and meat. Scones make a wonderful choice as it is easy to make and really yummy!

1 Lb. of flour

¼ pint of buttermilk

1 cup of raisins

1 teaspoon of Baking Soda

1 teaspoon of Baking Powder

2 tablespoons of sugar

2 oz Irish Butter

Sift the flour, baking soda and powder into a bowl. Rub in butter. Add in the sugar and raisins. Stir with a wooden spoon. Make a well in the mix and work in the buttermilk. Turn on to a floured board and knead briefly. With a wooden rolling pin, roll out the mixture till it is one inch thick. Use a cookie cutter, or an upside-down plastic tumbler, to cut out the scones from the dough. Glaze with a beaten egg. Bake in a hot oven ( 425°F) for 15 minutes. ( To make rock buns, pull a hand full of dough from the rolled out dough and arrange the "rocks" on a baking tray. Coat with sugar and bake.)

Champ

Champ is a simple warming dish which is cheap, easy to produce and very filling. When I was a child we used to have it at Hallowe'en for dinner. A silver sixpenny piece wrapped in greaseproof paper would be buried in it. To find it in your portion was to gring good luck for a year - quite apart from the temporary wealth.

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8 medium potatos, peeled

small bunch of scallions (spring onions)

1/4 pt/125ml/1/2 cup milk

salt and pepper

knob of butter per person

(serves four)

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The best way to prepare the potatoes is to cook them in a steamer and then pass them through a food mill. Alternatively, boil until soft but not mushy, drain and return them to the heat to dry somewhat before mashing. In any case keep hot. Chop the scallions finely, both green and white parts, and cook for 5 minutes in the milk. Beat this mixture into the mashed potatoes until smoooth and fluffy, season to taste and serve a large mound on each plate with a good knob of butter melting into the top. Each forkful is dipped into the melted butter as it is eaten. Very good with a glass of cold milk.

Colcannon is made in much the same way as champ, but with the addition of cabbage. In parts of the country white cabbage is always used. In any case, shred and chop a small cabbage (discard the stump) and cook until tender. Beat into the potato mixture and serve as above.

More Irish recipes here if you are looking for something else. http://www.irelandseye.com/aarticles/culture/recip...

I'm Irish and living in Ireland so I'm your man!

A traditional Irish dinner would be a beef stew.

Diced beef, big chunks of spuds, carrots, onions. Takes a long time to make but its as Irish as you can get, simple, tasty and very filling!

The olde corn beef and cabbage.

check this website out

it has desserts on it

http://www.homemade-dessert-recipes.com/irish-dess...