Green’s Dictionary of Slang

the Irish Exhibition held in London in 1888.

1888

Referee 10 June in Ware (1909) 263/1: Early on Monday morning I arose and donned my caubeen my brogues and other things, and lighting my dhudeen, and selecting my finest shillelagh, went off to Olympia to assist at the opening of the Whiskyries, otherwise the Irish Exhibition.