1978 J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 17: In Derry around 1800 the cadgers were so confident that the poitín was brought to town [...] in open tubs on donkeys.at cadger, n.
1978 J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 142: Muldoon settles down, mug of punch in hand, to tell you of ‘the good old days’ when he made the ‘cratur’.at creature, the, n.
1978 J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen n.p.: One important result of this [introduction of new government regulations, 1780s] was that the quality of legal (or ‘parliament whiskey’ as it was called) declined as distilleries were forced to work faster and faster [BS].at parliamentary whisky, n.
1978 J. McGuffin In Praise of Poteen 118: Tourists seeking Irish souvenirs are not infrequently sold rot gut and told that it’s ‘a drop of the quare stuff’.at quare stuff (n.) under quare, adj.