Never met the Lady but google tells me, "Old Mother Riley is an Irish washerwoman and charwoman character, his wife Kitty McShane played Old Mother Riley's daughter, Kitty. It was essentially a drag act but also a double act".
This would be the height of depravity in catholic Ireland of the 40 and 50's, obnoxious but not so much as The Krankies (no Nicola jokes please).
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