The question of what Irish people eat these days is one that brings people to our website all the time. (By the way, if you're here looking for an answer to the question "What is the Irish national dish?", the short answer is that there may not be one -- at least not one that you can get even a majority of Irish people to agree on. If you're thinking that the Irish national dish is corned beef and cabbage, we're sorry to tell you that it's not, and never has been: you can go to this page to find out why. It might be the Irish-American national dish...but here it's nowhere near as popular as a real national dish would be.)