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Cooley
Distillery is the only independent Irish owned distillery in Ireland, founded
in 1987 by John Teeling, a highly respected Irish entrepreneur. It was during
his studies at Harvard University in the early 1970's that John Teeling identified
the decline of Irish whiskey as an opportunity to reverse this situation.
John Teeling bought the former State owned potato alcohol
plant in the Cooley peninsula on Ireland's east coast. This alcohol plant was
converted in less than two years into two distilleries - a pot still and a patent
still operation. This marked the first rival to Irish Distillers, who up to
this point were the sole producer of Irish whiskey in the world. Meanwhile Willie
McCarter, who had been in the US as a student at the same time as John Teeling
and shared the vision, acquired some of the assets of the old A.A. Watt distillery
in Co. Derry. In 1988 Willie McCarter merged his interests with John Teeling.
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