Erse solid man

• Muldoon, the solid man: a parody song, written by Edward Harrigan; its first performance was probably in March 1874 in conjunction with a variety sketch called "Who Owns the Clothes Line." It became very popular and was covered by many other performers. It probably was spread to Ireland itself through the music-hall singing of William J. Ashcroft.

• The Solid Man: William J. Ashcroft, Dublin music-hall performer

• sullied: soiled; polluted; defiled
  • Shakespeare, Hamlet 1.2.129-130: "O that this too too sullied flesh would melt,/ Thaw and resolve itself into a dew". The First Folio has solid, while Q1 and Q2 have sallied (in the sense of "assailed"); Sullied is a nineteenth-century emendation.

• Ulysses 099.03: "And how is Dick, the solid man?"