craythur (craythur is poteen ( Poitín), 'a drop of the craythur' is an expression to have some poteen).tippler's way (a tippler is a drunkard).hod (a tool to carry bricks in) (Slang term for a tankard or drinking vessel).

Whiskey causes both Finnegan's fall and his resurrection- whiskey is derived from the Irish phrase uisce beatha ( pronounced ), meaning 'water of life'. The mourners at his wake become rowdy, and spill whiskey over Finnegan's corpse, causing him to come back to life and join in the celebrations. In the ballad, the hod-carrier Tim Finnegan, born 'with a love for the liquor', falls from a ladder, breaks his skull, and is thought to be dead. The song has been recorded by Irish-American Celtic punk band Dropkick Murphys. In more recent times, 'Finnegan's Wake' was a staple of the Irish folk-music group the Dubliners, who played it on many occasions and included it on several albums, and is especially well known to fans of the Clancy Brothers, who performed and recorded it with Tommy Makem. An earlier popular song, John Brougham's 'A Fine Ould Irish Gintleman,' also included a verse in which an apparently dead alcoholic was revived by the power of whiskey. Various 19th-century variety theatre performers, including Dan Bryant of Bryant's Minstrels, claimed authorship but a definitive account of the song's origin has not been established. ' Finnegan's Wake' is an Irish-American comic ballad, first published in New York in 1864. For the TV episode, see Finnegan's Wake (Homicide: Life on the Street). For the book by James Joyce, see Finnegans Wake.

Finnegans Wake by James Joyce