How To Use Poteen In A Sentence
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The distiller recommends only drinking the 180 proof poteen with mixers.
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Poteen he explained is a very potent liquor distilled from potatoes.
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They raided a poteen still in Riley's Place a month ago.
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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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Before going at the piles of splintered remains with wooden mallets, Mick and Mairtin get juiced on a potent Irish moonshine called poteen and fiddle with the unearthed bits.
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The distiller recommends only drinking the 180 proof poteen with mixers.
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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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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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No vile new-fangled heresies, such as crushed mint, lump ice, shortage of "poteen," found favor in his eyes
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Now you know, Terence, if you haven't forgot -- and if you have, I'll just remind you -- that there's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there, who calls herself Mrs O'Rourke, wife to a Corporal
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At the start, Amis announces certain 'general principles' to be followed in creating drinks, all of which can be derived, by natural drinkers 'logic, from the first of them, which holds that' up to a point [i.e. short of offering your guests one of those Balkan plonks marketed as wine, Cyprus sherry, poteen and the like], go for quantity rather than quality '.
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The only case before us to-day is one of house-breaking, drunkenness from excessive use of poteen, which is an illegal drink, and resisting arrest by the police.
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The brogue was there, strong and unmistakable as poteen.
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Poteen he explained is a very potent liquor distilled from potatoes.
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I caught a bit of this on Radio 4 yesterday: stuff I had never known about the distilling of illicit liquor in Scotland and Ireland, moonshine and poteen.
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Now, you know, Terence, if you haven't forgot -- and if you have, I'll just remind you -- that there's a flaunty sort of young woman at the poteen shop there, who calls herself Mrs O'Rourke, wife to a corporal
Peter Simple
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Poitin or poteen is a Gaelic word meaning ‘little pot’ applied to whiskey made in illicit stills.
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The eradication of 'whisky trading', for example, was used in this way by the Canadian Mounted Police in the 19th century. 91 The elimination of 'poteen' production was used as an excuse by the British for evicting the Irish during the land clearances in the last century. '
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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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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 strange Bosnian drink not unlike poteen.
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In a word “poteen” on December 7, 2009 at 9: 51 pm Tony F
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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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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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On behalf of my client, Mrs. Fennell, I wish to impress upon the Bench the gravity of the offence with which the accused Richard Fennell is charged, namely, drunkenness from excessive use of an illegal intoxicant known as poteen, house-breaking, terrorizing and almost paralyzing with fear his highly strung and sensitive wife, and adding insult to injury in resisting arrest by his Majesty's guardian of law and order,
Duty, and other Irish Comedies
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The distiller recommends only drinking the 180 proof poteen with mixers.
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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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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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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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Poteen he explained is a very potent liquor distilled from potatoes.
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The brain damaging poteen, the bullying violence, the wife beating, the abuse of children and the bigotry.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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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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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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There in the shebeen they sold poteen and punch while in the pubs, beer and spirits were available.
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Never mix cards and whisky unless you were weaned on Irish poteen, " Gerald told Pork gravely the same evening, as Pork assisted him to bed.
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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.
