"Colleen" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... comedian, produced the "Colleen Bawn," or the "Brides of Garry Owen." The play made a lasting impression on me, as the finest comedy I had ever seen. It may be that Mr. Wheatley's fine personation of Danny Mann, the leading part, made me think so, but ...
— Some Reminiscences of old Victoria • Edgar Fawcett
... an Irish M.P., following the example of Shaun the Post in The Colleen Bawn, when the scoundrelly lawyer brings a charge against the hero of the drama, "An' what might you be doin' about there ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 • Various
... the days of battle were the days of peace, and she made her father close the house and go away. For years they wandered where they would, but always were back for the month of June; and no one remembered that the twenty-first was the date of Colleen McMasters's death, or know that on that day his grave was visited, and there alone a woman yielded to the memories that ...
— Miss Gibbie Gault • Kate Langley Bosher |
