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Authors Index   |  Giles Macdonagh

Articles by Giles Macdonagh

National debt

Without Ireland, there would be no whisky in Scotland. Giles Macdonagh traces Scotch back to its Irish roots.

Though it will make me unpopular in some parts of Glasgow to say so, whisky, like Christianity, reached Scotland from Ireland, possibly in a coracle. Whiskey (as the Irish now insist on spelling it), was supposedly made as early as the end of the first millennium. No-one knows how the Irish seized o...

Irish Whiskey from Issue 3 published on 13/5/1999