Word: poteen
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...women & children of Cork and Kerry. The townsmen - clerks, shopkeepers, shabby priests, students, girls who dream of America - live in a retired world of mahogany cabinets with glass fronts, gilt mirrors with cupids, sets of the History of the Popes, cheap alarm clocks on bedside tables. Snatches of whiskey, poteen or brandy turn them from sighs to smiles in the wink of an eye. Back of them are the old stone farms and grey walls of their childhood-homes huddled away on islands in the middle of lakes and reached by cold journeys in red-sailed boats. They talk...
...Patrick O'Donnell, Archbishop of Armagh, who cleaned "poteen-(Irish moonshine) from his diocese by making penitent drinkers walk miles for absolution...