Quote of the Day for 2016-06-17

"I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul."

— James Joyce (1882-1941) "Ireland, Island of Saints and Sages," a lecture at Università Popolare, Trieste, Austria-Hungary (April 27, 1907)

An unidentified Magdalene Laundry in Ireland (circa 1900)

Quote of the Day for 2016-02-12

"We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."

— Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) The Canterville Ghost, chapter 1, The Court and Society Review, February 23, 1887

"They Can't Fight" by Frederick Burr Opper for the cover of Puck (January 15, 1896)