Author: John McGuffin
Photographs: Lawrence O'Connor collection
ISBN: 0 86281 768 4
202 x 138 mm/ B&W photographs / Paperback
£8.99
In Praise of Poteen
Relaunched this year with a striking new cover design, John McGuffin's classic account of illicit alcohol distilling in Ireland will reach a wide new readership. Based on substantial research and many interviews, and illustrated with rare photographs, it is a serious but by no means solemn study. A human and social document of unusual interest, including its description of the little known mania for ether-inhaling that afflicted certain places, In Praise of Poteen is a unique blend of folklore, economics, law and - in its accounts of the inevitable conflicts between the revenue men and the poítín makers - tragi-comedy.