Irish Prisoners

Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or prisoners:

“I hope you will not be washed away by the Irish sea.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“We are all conceived in close prison; in our mothers’ wombs, we are close prisoners all; when we are born, we are born but to the liberty of the house; prisoners still, though within larger walls; and then all our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.”
—John Donne (c. 1572–1631)