Poteen

I shall raise a glass of Meths (closest thing I have to Poteen) tonight in your honour.

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In one, I describe hitchhiking across Ireland when a guy picked me up and soon thereafter offered me “Poteen,” which is Irish moonshine.

Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons Greg Fitzsimmons 2010

The labourer, the half-witted fellow, the farmer and the two lads mixed with a group of servants who were looking on from an alcove, and Duallach sat with the pipers on their bench, but Costello made his way through the dancers to where Dermott of the Sheep stood with Namara of the Lake pouring Poteen out of a porcelain jug into horn noggins with silver rims.

The Secret Rose 1897

The old man took out of a niche in the wall the silver cup from which her mother and her mother's mother had drunk the toasts of their betrothals, and poured Poteen out of a porcelain jug and handed the cup to his daughter with the customary words, 'Drink to him whom you love the best.'

The Secret Rose 1897

And then he held the now empty noggin towards Costello, his hand closing round it like the claw of a bird, and cried: 'Fill my noggin again, for I would the day had come when all the water in the world is to shrink into a periwinkle-shell, that I might drink nothing but Poteen.'

The Secret Rose 1897

* One method of selling Poteen is by bringing in kishes of turf to the neighboring markets, when those who are up to the secret purchase the turf, or pretend to do so; and while in the act of discharging the load, the Keg of Poteen is quickly passed into the house of him who purchases the turf.

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

Over in one of the corners lay three or four budgets, old iron skillets, hammers, lumps of melted lead, broken pots, a quantity of cows 'horns for spoons, wooden dishes that required clasping, old kettles that wanted repair, a couple of cast off Poteen Stills, and a new one half made -- all of which were visible by the light of a large log of bog-fir which lay burning in the fire-place.

The Emigrants Of Ahadarra The Works of William Carleton, Volume Two William Carleton 1831

And never forget Poteen, NEVER, last time I had the good stuff I was blind for 72 hours.

Starpulse Entertainment News 2009

A Miracle - the transformation of Holy Water into Poteen.

Mandolin Cafe News 2009

Poteen - Poitin, Mountain Dew, Juice of the Barley

Mandolin Cafe News 2009