"spalpeen" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1979, Thomas Flanagan, The Year of the French, New York, N.Y.: The New York Review of Books:",
          "text": "\"And they stood you before the magistrates, like a spalpeen or a tinker.\" / \"Sure the French wouldn't bring with them barrels of coppers for the spalpeens of Connaught. It is murder and bloodshed they would bring.\"",
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          "ref": "2002, Joseph O’Conner, Star of the Sea, Vintage, published 2003, page 25:",
          "text": "The men were mainly evicted farmers from Connaught and West Cork, beggared spalpeens from Carlow and Waterford; a cooper, some farriers, a horse-knacker from Kerry; a couple of Galway fishermen who had managed to sell their nets.",
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          "text": "[A] fortunate accident […] happened to me when I was a very little boy. A good-hearted old Irish nurse (whom I shall not forget in my will) took me up one day by the heels, when I was making more noise than was necessary, and, swinging me round two or three times, d——d my eyes for \"a skreeking little spalpeen,\" and then knocked my head into a cocked hat against the bed-post. This, I say, decided my fate, and made my fortune.",
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