Possible Clues:

• Wine developed new air
• The island that created so much trouble for Ireland
• A fortified wine, a rich sponge
• Wine made one be republican in the end
• Forced rebel army to drink
• Forced to go by air, travelling to a holiday resort
• The island that was the making of the militant republicans
• The island that created the republicans
• Sweet wine of Portugal
• Portuguese North Atlantic island