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• n  unlawfully distilled Irish whiskey

• Despite its Irishness, Three Wishes is raspberry syrup without a drop of poteen.
• Snatches of whiskey, poteen or brandy turn them from sighs to smiles in the wink of an eye.
• A 19th Century observer reported Inishmurray poteen flowing "extensively over the whole seaboard from Sligo to Bundoran and even to a considerable distance inland.