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Updated: July 14, 2025
Of hackney coaches there were few but in jingles, noddies, and jaunting-cars, with three on a side and "one in the well," we mustered strong Down Barrack-street we galloped, the mob cheering us, we laughing, and I'm afraid shouting a little, too the watchmen springing their rattles, as if instinctively at noise, and the whole population up and awake, evidently entertaining a high opinion of our convivial qualities.
There were all the Dublin notorieties, swarming in barouches, and tilburies, and outside jaunting-cars smart clerks in the post-office, mounted upon kicking devils from Dycer's and Lalouette's stables attorney's wives and daughters from York-street, and a stray doctor or so on a hack that looked as if it had been lectured on for the six winter months at the College of Surgeons.
It is strange that victorias like those in Paris have never been tried in this warm climate. A few years ago Irish jaunting-cars and a jolting vehicle called a 'jingle' were much used, but they have slipped out of favour of late, and are now almost obsolete.
Ireland has the greenest grass and trees, the finest stones and lakes, and they've jaunting-cars. I don't know just exactly what they are, but Ireland has all there are, anyway. They've a lot of great actors, and a few singers, and there never was a sweeter poet than one of theirs. You should hear my father recite 'Dear Harp of My Country. He does it this way."
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