Historian brings collection of long-lost Irish whiskey recipes back to life

Leading whiskey historian Fionnan O’Connor samples one of the newly-distilled mashbills he discovered (Boann Distillery/PA)

A collection of long-lost Irish whiskey recipes unearthed by a historian have been brought back to life for the first time in almost a century.

The first casks have been produced, some made using ingredients – or mashbills – which date back to the 1800s.