Rick:

My own experience of Irish cooking, which is fairly extensive, suggests that

Mr. Bulger left out some essentials.

I think it should be: “We put the food in boiling water. Then we go and

hoe the fields for ten hours or so. Then we have a ceili [=dance party] for

a few hours. Then, when we have slept off the ceili, we go to Mass,

followed by quiet private devotions for the rest of the day. Then we take

the food out.”