reilla-ghan's

Updated: May 6, 2025

"This would make a brave powdher-horn, Darby Moore," observed one of Reilla-ghan's sons, "if it wasn't so big. What do you keep in it, Darby?" "It smells like whiskey, Darby," said the boy, without any intention, however, of offending him. "It smells very like poteen." "Hould yer tongue, Risthard," said the elder Reillaghan; "what 'ud make the honest man have whiskey in it?

William Carleton - The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh: Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of: William Carleton, Volume Three