Word: poteen
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...grand event. It’s also a great day to put a touch of the Blarney on your tongue with liberal amounts of St. Paddy’s greatest gift to the Irish: whiskey. But even if you can’t tell your Paddy from your Poteen, FM will help you find the craic tonight. Just follow the pub-filled road (Mass. Ave)! And remember: Paddy is a disparaging term for “Irish person,” Poteen means “illegally distilled Irish whiskey,” and craic (pronounced “crack?...
...British troops and 60 police made an intensive search of the Long Kesh camp near Belfast, where 500 I.R.A. suspects are detained. The search uncovered hacksaws, chisels, wire cutters, counterfeit money, three imitation tommy guns carved from wood, cosh-like steel pipes-and four gallons of still fermenting poteen (moonshine whisky mash...
...help the farmers dig spuds in the autumn; about weddings and wakes and corpses that sat up in their shrouds. Yet the special charm of this book is that it manages to describe Irish peasant life without condescension or that peculiar quaintness which often produces a distinct aroma of poteen and formaldehyde. The book's other claim to fame is that (for reasons not even Fellow Irishman Frank O'Connor, who provides the introduction, can fully explain) it was banned by the government in 1943 as "in general tendency indecent." The ban has since been lifted...
...Lord! Sure I almost forgot the poteen...
...technicolor opus called The Quiet Man, about a red haired colleen and an ex-boxer come back to the ould sod. Now, as if in atonement for that bit of profitable fakery, Ford has given us The Rising of the Moon, a little trio of flicks full of peat, poteen and artistry...