The Ward 8

Cocktail of the Month…

(from Blood & Whiskey #10)

There are many origins stories behind this classic, but this much is known (and can be found in my book, The First Kennedys): Martin Lomasney, powerful boss of Boston’s Ward 8 (the west end) through the late 1800s, was a contemporary (and frequent foe) of P.J. Kennedy, the quiet but equally powerful boss of Ward 2 (East Boston). The cocktail is credited to Lomasney’s turf but is more broadly a testament to Boston’s era of upstart Irish-Democratic w...