flys!!!!

[pato]

Hey guys - lets get this right its WHISKY - WITH MY HERITAGE IM QUALIFIED

Are you a Scot then mac?

Yep! he's a Whisky Mac

[maccasa]

well the clue's in the name and I'll be in the square at midnight 31st and you might just confirm the answer to that question from what I shall be wearing

[SAM SPARKLE]

Hey guys - lets get this right its WHISKY - WITH MY HERITAGE IM QUALIFIED

The correct spelling is WHISKEY as done so by the Irish and Americans. However, the jocks and other inferior Whiskey making nations spell it WHISKY. So now you know.

[Ellie]

Hey guys - lets get this right its WHISKY - WITH MY HERITAGE IM QUALIFIED

The correct spelling is WHISKEY as done so by the Irish and Americans. However, the jocks and other inferior Whiskey making nations spell it WHISKY. So now you know.

Theres 2 spellings in the dictionary:
Whiskey as spelt by the Irish & Americans
Whisky ( a spirit from distilling malt barley)

I looked up Irish whiskey and saw that Bushmills is the world's oldest distillery of whiskey? (N.Ireland)

Did you know that theres another whisky...its a light gig or a chaise.
So after a couple of glasses of the malt, you can get in your whisky and be whisked off.......
(sorry about that )

p.s. and the mossies/flies will leave you alone.........

[maccasa]

You are correct - Bushmills is the oldest "registered" distillery - it was set up by scots in 1601 who were frequently in NI - They were all bootleg whisky makers who were fed up at being pursued by the lairds and english hosts for revenue. The scots did a lot of that sort of thing - if they couldnt find a decent drop where they were they tended to make it themselves - and it usually flourished - eg Hennessey Cognac!
If you look at the map of NI you will see how close scotland is - the people of NI had a closer relationship with the scots than with the southern Irish - did you know that at one time people would row from scotland to NI to go to sunday church? no wonder they set up a distillery - must have needed a drop after rowing all that way!!

[EMM]

The tudors transplanted protestant scots from the lowland and displaced the resident catholic irish population ( at the point of the sword and pike ) which is why there is such a close relationship between NI and Scotland.

It is also the cause of of the problems that have beset Ireland for 500 years.

After a long and bloody war the Catholic Irish earls ( such as Tyrone ) accepted defeat and many left Ireland for catholic european countries.