How to make the perfect Irish stew?

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Winter is a time for stew, and few answer the call better than Irish stew. Often touted as the national dish of Ireland, and a symbol of working-class nourishment in James Joyce’s Ulysses, the hearty meat and potato dish has its origins in Irish subsistence farming, when it was made with the scrag ends of the animal (traditionally the neck of the mutton) in a pot…