Jingle (carriage)

A jingle (sometimes spelled gingle) was a kind of covered carriage formerly used in the city of Cork, Ireland in the 19th and early 20th centuries.[1][2] It was described as "entirely peculiar to Cork" in 1919.[3][4]

Patrick Street c. 1864–75, with a jingle visible at centre.

In 1837 there were 300 jingles running from Cork City to Passage West.[5][6] The "gingle stand" was located next to an equestrian statue of King George II on Grand Parade, Cork.[7]

In 1873, one writer described them: "The jingle is a covered vis-a-vis, in which you ride with your side in the direction of your onward motion. Over this inside car is reared a flat-topped square tent of black tarpaulin, opening by movable curtains at the rear where you enter the car. The shafts are pitched high on the horse's back […] the body of the vehicle [is placed] at an angle of about 30° with the ground."[8]

In 2018, David Toms wrote an academic paper on Cork hackney drivers; he said that "[jinglemen] were for the most part a precarious working class who were policed by the Corporation, the Hackney Carriage Committee and the by-law governing their livelihoods. As such, the bye-law and the apparatus that implemented it was a form of liberal governmentality and social control over a portion of Cork’s working class."[9]

References

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  2. "Christian Missionary Civilization: Its Necessity, Progress and Blessing. Illustrated with 78 Engravings on Wood". J. Snow. March 14, 1842 via Google Books.
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  4. ltd, Ward, Lock and Company (March 14, 1928). "A Pictorial and descriptive guide to Killarney, the Kerry Coast, Glengariff, Cork, and the south-west of Ireland: three district maps, and plans of Killarney, Cork, et. : sixty illustrations". Ward, Lock & co., limited via Google Books.
  5. McCarthy, Kieran (March 18, 2019). The Little Book of Cork Harbour. History Press. ISBN 9780750989602 via Google Books.
  6. Gibson, Charles Bernard (March 14, 1861). "The History of the County and City of Cork". T.C. Newby via Google Books.
  7. Windele, John (March 14, 1839). "Historical and Descriptive Notices of the City of Cork and Its Vicinity". Bolster via Google Books.
  8. "Hunt's Yachting Magazine". Hunt. March 14, 1873 via Google Books.
  9. Toms, David (October 23, 2018). "The Hackney Carriage in Cork: Vehicle of a Victorian Irish City 1854–1902". Irish Economic and Social History. 45: 136–154. doi:10.1177/0332489318805592 via journals.sagepub.com.
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