| The request was granted 12 hours later and I was rewarded with a bottle of poteen as the Doctors did not accept a fee in such cases. |
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| There in the shebeen they sold poteen and punch while in the pubs, beer and spirits were available. |
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| Well, he recently confessed to enjoying a regular breakfast of potatoes covered in Guinness washed down with a steaming hot mug of poteen. |
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| Apart from promoting food crops the papers at the time were full with reports of poteen making, hen stealing and, even in two cases, of people stealing potatoes from fields. |
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| The history of the Knockeen Hills brand is becoming a legend in itself, having first been produced when the sale of poteen was still illegal in Ireland. |
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| I wasn't sure what Martinis were but they were something like the stuff called poteen that was given to special visitors like the priest or to the postman at Christmas. |
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| Then again, it might be nothing more serious than the fact that I grew up in poteen country where there were several shades of grey between good and evil. |
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| This country has a number of problems: because it has had it hard, good times go to its head faster than poteen. |
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| We sat up in my house in Belfast that night after the reading, drinking poteen and singing. |
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| Trying to quit drinking but picked on by everyone, especially the Devil, Sharky succumbs to a jug of poteen and erupts in a scenery-bashing rage. |
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| The local priest sent word to the Station that same night that he heard of poteen being sold in full view and openly at a certain premises and could I go there hotfoot? |
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| Meanwhile, the authorities at Limerick prison have started a major crackdown on a very potent form of jail poteen which prisoners make for consumption at Christmas. |
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| For more than a wee while, we discussed the potato and poteen, that wickedly potent brew that has been known to kick-start a reluctant cow into labour. |
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| The distiller recommends only drinking the 180 proof poteen with mixers. |
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| That day a large group of village people gathered around a long picnic table eating barbecued lamb and singing Bosnian folk songs helped along by a drink not unlike poteen. |
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| The Irish peasantry practice the distillation of that illicit spirituous liquor, so well known by the name of poteen whiskey, with a most unaccountable infatuation. |
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| Poteen he explained is a very potent liquor distilled from potatoes. |
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