A Touch Of The Poet ***
By: Samuel L. Leiter Before us on the Irish Rep's miniscule stage is a lifelike simulacrum of the dining room in a village inn outside Boston, circa 1828 (the year of Andrew Jackson's election). Two coarse men are speaking with thick brogues, and whiskey keeps sliding down gullets to familiar resting places. Before long, an imposing man named Cornelius ("Con") Melody (pronounced "Mel-OWE-dy") appears, spewing bragg…