Useful comparative evidence for how regulation, trade access, and political disruption can reshape a whiskey category.
The source frames decline as cumulative rather than monocausal.
The opening chronology links Irish whiskey's contraction to competition from Scottish column-still production, conflict and loss of Commonwealth market access, and U.S. Prohibition followed by inability to meet renewed demand.
PDF sheet 14
PDF sheet 14
Opening chronology
Fresh supplied-copy text and visual locator audit. Narrowed to sheet 14; consolidation was not supported by this locator. The source's causal interpretation is not independently established. This checks fidelity to the 2019 source, not present-day truth. The 744-sheet supplied copy has a truncated index.
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