Irish Confederate Wars/the Plot %e2%80%93 October 1641

Famous quotes containing the words irish, confederate, wars, plot and/or october:

    “Irish Americans are about as Irish as black Americans are African.”
    —Bob Geldof (b. 1954)

    “Figure a man’s only good for one oath at a time. I took mine to the Confederate States of America.”
    —Frank S. Nugent (1908–1965)

    “Before now poetry has taken notice
    Of wars, and what are wars but politics
    Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “There saw I how the secret felon wrought,
    And treason labouring in the traitor’s thought,
    And midwife Time the ripened plot to murder brought.”
    —Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)

    “The autumnal change of our woods has not yet made a deep impression on our own literature yet. October has hardly tinged our poetry.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)