Welsh and the Paddy Patkinses

• Welshmen, Irishmen and Englishmen → representing the Shem, Shaun and Shem/Shaun trio that recur throughout FW

• Welsh: Welshmen

• Paddy: a slang term for an Irishman. It is a diminutive of the Irish forename Pádraig, the equivalent of the English "Patrick", and although it is also in use as an ordinary forename its use as slang is now considered offensive or contemptuous by many people
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• Tommy Atkins: a slang term for a British soldier
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake
  • Wikipedia

• George Bernard Shaw, Heartbreak House Act I: "I'm little Paddy Patkins."

• Patrick Brunty: father of the Brontë sisters

• Patrick Branwell Brontë: brother ofthe Brontë sisters