Happy St Patrick's Day

[mancity2012_eamo]

Family connection, the pubs, the people, the history ;-) Just love it.

You’re starting to sell me on the place.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

It's fine, I've always been able to mix with both lol x

You can drop in to Bono so.
Although I think he sold that place a while back.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

Where does the term Jackeens come from? is it exclusively a term used for Dubs? always meant to find that out

PS - Happy St Patricks Day everyone. Had a day spent in the pub with Guinness, Cheltenham on the TV and Grace and Fields of Athenry being sung :)

Apparently it’s from our love of you Brits.
Edit: Not you IrishblueSince92 obviously.

JACKEEN​

DEROGATORY TERM FOR SOMEONE FROM DUBLIN
DERIVED FROM DUBLIN STRONG ASSOCIATION WITH BRITIAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCE ON THE CITY. WHEN THE QUEEN VISITED DUBLIN THE PEOPLE WAVED UNION JACKS TO WELCOME HER WHICH LED TO THEM BEING REFERRED TO AS JACKEENS

 

[dublinblue12]

 

[dublinblue12]

Apparently it’s from our love of you Brits.
Edit: Not you IrishblueSince92 obviously.

JACKEEN​

DEROGATORY TERM FOR SOMEONE FROM DUBLIN
DERIVED FROM DUBLIN STRONG ASSOCIATION WITH BRITIAN AND BRITISH INFLUENCE ON THE CITY. WHEN THE QUEEN VISITED DUBLIN THE PEOPLE WAVED UNION JACKS TO WELCOME HER WHICH LED TO THEM BEING REFERRED TO AS JACKEENS

Term Jackeen about long before queens visit. If that was true, why are people in cork not called it

 

[jimharri]

Where does the term Jackeens come from? is it exclusively a term used for Dubs? always meant to find that out

PS - Happy St Patricks Day everyone. Had a day spent in the pub with Guinness, Cheltenham on the TV and Grace and Fields of Athenry being sung :)

Jackeen - Wikipedia

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[mancity2012_eamo]

Term Jackeen about long before queens visit. If that was true, why are people in cork not called it

There is an older explanation;

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Look up jackeen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Jackeen is a pejorative term for someone from Dublin, Ireland. The Oxford English Dictionary defines it as a "contemptuous designation for a self-assertive worthless fellow", citing the earliest documented use from the year 1840.[1]
The term Jackeen is believed to be derived from the name Jack, a common English nickname for the names James and John,[2] or in reference to the Union Jack, the flag of the United Kingdom. Following the Norman invasion of Irelandbeginning in 1169, Dublin became the centre of the Pale, the part of Ireland directly under the control of the English government in the late Middle Ages. By the 19th century, Dublin had served as the centre for English rule in Ireland for centuries, and Dubliners were stereotyped as being heavily Anglicized and considered the most English of all the Irish.
Jack is combined with the Irish diminutive suffix "-een" (represented as -ín in Irish) meaning little, commonly found in Irish female names such as Roisín ("little Rose") and Maureen (Mairín, "little Mary"), implying that Dubliners are "little Englishmen".[1]

 

[jimharri]

You can drop in to Bono so.
Although I think he sold that place a while back.

All the more reason to avoid the place!

 

[When The Levee Breaks]

Dad is from Kilkenny. Got more family in Ireland than I have in England. I am all aboard the Plastic Paddy train tonight. Choo!! Choo!!
Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit.
Slaintè!!

 

[Deleted member 77198]

He was also English who was captured by the Irish and put into slavery

There was no such thing as England/English in the 400s. He was a Romanised Briton.