Jackeen

Her little boys and girls will sell the milk, and when Jackeen has his engineering holidays he will come and eat fresh butter and scones and cream and jam at the farm, and when her children have their holidays they will go and play on 'Jackeen's beach.'

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

The young Mrs. La Touche seemed to have no resources apart from her family, and even her baby 'Jackeen' failed to absorb her as might have been expected.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Broona and Jackeen had lunched with us at the Old Hall, and, inebriated by broiled chicken, green peas, and a half holiday, flitted like fireflies through Aunt David's garden, showing all its treasures to the two new friends, already in high favour.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Jackeen is to be 'an engineer, by the sea,' so it seems, and Broona is to be a farmer's wife with a tiny red bill-book like Mrs. Colquhoun's.

Penelope's Irish Experiences Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin 1889

Enda Kenny quickly degenerated into a culchies versus Jackeen fiasco, with some of Kenny's supporters complaining that the metropolitan elite simply sneers at these strong-handed sons of the soil.

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