It s quintessentially Irish, the peat briquette warmed homes and fired stoves across the country for decades.
It even inspired one of the Boomtown Rats, Patrick Cusack, to adapt it as his stage name - he became known worldwide as Pete Briquette.
The peat briquette was Ireland s answer to fuel shortages in the wake of World War 2 and in time, with mechanisation, it became available to homes nationwide.
Made from milled peat, Bord na Móna was producing millions of them every year in the midlands. At one point it was producing 280 million briquettes annually - if they were laid end-to-end they would have stretched around the world twice!