Pole ole Lonan

• poor old woman (epithet of Kathleen Ni Houlihan, personification of Ireland)

• Lonan: an Irish chieftain who was converted to Christianity by St Patrick

• Onan: a Biblical character (Genesis 38); the term onanism (= "masturbation") derives from this story

• Browne & Nolan: a Dublin bookshop → Bruno of Nola → Shaun and Shem