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   half a gross, bread butter jams and tea. Whiskey used to be an essential at wakes until it was marked as a reserved sin.
   The giving of drink at wakes was carried to such an extent that many families were swamped and crippled with debt for years. When, as often happened, the great reaper visited the same family two or three times in a couple of years it can easily be understood that this compulsory hospitality often proved a withering blight on a once happy and prosperous household.
   The degree and extent to which such orgies used to be carried is now-a-days almost incredible but we have definite and indisputable evidence to show the growth of the evil. Before the custom of poteen making was duly discouraged by fines and otherwise the evil was much greater but when we hear of the amount of whiskey and wines ordered for a single wake we must stand apalled.
   One excise officer in Ballinamore told me that out of curiosity he looked up the publicans' books as having been supplied at certain wakes and funerals.

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