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Waterford people say the stuff is uniquely theirs, but that is not true; it was also baked in counties Kilkenny and Wexford in my youth. The Waterford story that blahs \/blaas were introduced by the Huguenots who fled religious persecution in France in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, and originally called blaads, may or may not be true. I think the word is from the Irish bleathach, a small, flat flour cake.' 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As with all Diarmaid Ó Muirithe’s work, this book is a model of scholarship lightly worn, informed by a sense of curiosity and fun. 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