Pole ole Lonan
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- 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