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 Irish are a fair people; they never speak well of one another.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
“The incomprehensibleness of women is an old theory, but what is that to the curious wondering observation with which wives, mothers, and sisters watch the other unreasoning animal in those moments when he has snatched the reins out of their hands, and is not to be spoken to!... It is best to let him come to, and feel his own helplessness.”
—Margaret Oliphant (1828–1897)