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On St. Patrick's Day, try chef Eric Akis's recipe for colcannon, a popular Irish dish that combines buttery mashed potatoes with cabbage or kale

Illustration by Benedetta Celada. No Christma-a-as! No Christma-a-as!” Such was the town crier’s chant in the streets of 17th-century Dublin when Ireland felt the hammer blow of Oliver Cromwell’s Puritan iron fist. Garlands of greenery were pulled down and publicly burned. Revelry was forbidden. Priests were imprisoned. But the Irish people found ways to celebrate their most loved holiday despite the hazard. Those troubled times were in fact the origin of the custom of putting a lighted c...