I curse the day I met you, John, I curse the luckless hour I tasted first your flavoured cup, And felt its magic power.
Casey was an inspiration for the "Poet of the Pick", Jem Casey, a character in Flann O'Brien's satirical novel At Swim-Two-Birds.[2] Jem Casey was a labourer who wrote "pomes" such as The Workman's Friend,[3]
When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt – A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
^Foley, John (2005), "The Historical Origins of Flann O'Brien's Jem Casey", Notes and Queries, 52 (1): 97–99, doi:10.1093/notesj/gji140, ISSN0029-3970{{citation}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)