Drinking habits old and new
Drinking habits old and new
4 May 1967[more in PDF…]
Faced with figures like that I had to admit that Paddy had certainly done his home work on this aspect of Dublin culture. But, apart from this stuff which the Government i knew all about, there were taverns like Sir Timothy O’Brien’s pub in Nicholas Place where many customers “were enticed by the poteen made on the premises through the convenience of the special facilities provided by the River Poddle which flowed underneath the cellars.” It seemed that into this river could be’ poured all the waste arising from the illegal distillations. No wonder Baranaby Rych was so ill-disposed in his writeup of his Dublin visit.
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