"Waxy" as defined in "Slanguage" (see above):

"Use of wax-end for stitching (Dub.) - Cobbler". [quote example of use] "Leather isn't the same now as it was years ago or are the waxies using cardboard to make boots and shoes?"

"Waxies Dargle - [nickname c.1890-] Annual gathering at Irishtown Green, near Ringsend."

From "Irish Times" 25 March 1936 - "At that time (late 19th C) the Dargle in Wicklow [Bray] was more popular as a holiday resort than it is at present and "Dargle" has passed into popular speech as synonymous with "holiday resort". In Dublin slang of the period a cobbler was known as a "waxy". Not being able to get as far away from town on their days off as the better class Dubliners...they had to be content with a run to Irishtown [beside Ringsend] and Merrion Sands [east Dublin]".

Brendan Behan, 1981 ("After the Wake") "Why can't you write about something natural? Like the time we all fell into the water at the Waxie's Dargle"!!!!!!!!