Pool the begg

• Poolbeg Lighthouse: a lighthouse at the entrance to Dublin harbour
  • A Finnegans Wake Gazetteer

• pool the begg and pass the kish: "Praise the lord and pass the biscuits," southern American idiom used at mealtime

• Begg: James Begg, a fishmonger in Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), Dublin → continuing the fishy theme of this paragraph
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• poule: (French) hen → the Hen, Biddy Doran, who appears at FW 011.08
  • Third Census of Finnegans Wake

• bag → the Hen's nabsack at FW 011.19