Also awesome versions of
Finnegan's Wake and
Amazing Grace.
Back in
Boston before
AA, when a
worker had a
drinking problem serious enough to threaten his
job, he would be sent to a '
retreat', usually in
Vermont,
New Hampshire or
westawoostah. There they'd
dry up and generally be told how close they were to screwing their lives up and told to stay
dry. The
people that went to these
places, usually
Irish men who worked with their hands or as a
foreman for a living, would be called
Dropkick Murphys.