Irish Sisters
- Religious Sisters of Charity (or Irish Sisters of Charity), founded by Mary Aikenhead in Ireland in 1815.
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Famous quotes containing the words irish and/or sisters:
“The next forenoon we went to Oldtown.... The Indian is said to cultivate the vices rather than the virtues of the white man. Yet this village was cleaner than I expected, far cleaner than such Irish villages as I have seen.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The youngest stood upon a stane,
The eldest cam and push’d her in.”
—Unknown. Binnorie; or, The Two Sisters (l. 15–16)