Raise your glasses to Irish whiskey

In the 1980s there were just two distilleries in Ireland. Today there are at least a dozen. Peter Mulryan explores this boom in his new book, The Whiskeys of Ireland, writes Leslie Williams.

So who invented whiskey? Ireland or Scotland?

Of course strictly speaking it was the Arabs, but there was a time in the 19th and early 20th century when Irish whiskey was the gold standard and sold for a premium over all other whiskeys.