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What does poteen mean?

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Noun
  1. (Ireland, countable, uncountable) Illegally produced Irish whiskey; moonshine. [from early 19th c.]
  2. (Ireland, countable, by extension) An unlicensed drinking establishment selling illegally produced Irish whiskey.
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Well, he recently confessed to enjoying a regular breakfast of potatoes covered in Guinness washed down with a steaming hot mug of poteen.
The request was granted 12 hours later and I was rewarded with a bottle of poteen as the Doctors did not accept a fee in such cases.
There in the shebeen they sold poteen and punch while in the pubs, beer and spirits were available.
We sat up in my house in Belfast that night after the reading, drinking poteen and singing.
Apart from promoting food crops the papers at the time were full with reports of poteen making, hen stealing and, even in two cases, of people stealing potatoes from fields.
For more than a wee while, we discussed the potato and poteen, that wickedly potent brew that has been known to kick-start a reluctant cow into labour.

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