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"With all my heart," says Tom; "send a jackeen to show me where he lives, and we'll see how he behaves to a stranger." — Celtic Fairy Tales
To the sellers in the market, to the barmen and barmaids, to the beggars who importuned him for a lob Mr Dedalus told the same tale -- that he was an old Corkonian, that he had been trying for thirty years to get rid of his Cork accent up in Dublin and that Peter Pickackafax beside him was his eldest son but that he was only a Dublin jackeen. — A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
a Dublin jackeen, an 'weighed sixteen stone an' was great with a thrip an 'a punch. — Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
And is it the way I'd be leavin 'you marry some good-for-nothing idle jackeen, who couldn't buy a ha'porth of bird seed for a linnet or a finch, let alone to keep a wife? — Duty, and other Irish Comedies