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Jackeen: Rural term for person from Dublin. Compare: mulchie, culchie.
Jar: Alcoholic drink. "A jar" refers to a single drink (e.g. "Will you have a jar with me?"), whereas "the jar" refers to alcoholic drink in general (e.g. "that fella has a fierce graw for the jar")
Joe Soap: The Irish equivalent of John Doe or John Smith, the archetypal "man in the street".
Joy, the: Mountjoy Prison, Dublin.