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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Old Mother Riley
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Comically abusive Irish washerwoman, the creation in the *music hall of Arthur Lucan; his wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty. They became known to a much wider audience through the cinema. Between 1937 and 1952 there were fourteen Mother Riley films.
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