File agus aistritheoir é Mícheál Ó hAodha. He has translated many of Ireland's leading 20th century Irish-language writers ...

So the Irish would have had plenty of time to teach the Scots the process of distilling in the three-plus centuries that elapsed before the first authenticated mention of what sounds like Scotch.

Then, in 1831, a certain Aeneas Coffey, once Inspector-General of Irish Excise, patented a new type of still that came to be known as the "patent still" or "Coffey still." Turned down by the ...