She, the mother of the poor little colleen Who lies in her youth so low.
"The Story and Song of Black Roderick"
Dora Sigerson
But what became of that Irish colleen you used to moon over?
"The House of a Thousand Candles"
Meredith Nicholson
That is why I did not endow O'Flaherty V.C. with an ideal Irish colleen for his sweetheart, and gave him for his mother a Volumnia of the potato patch rather than a affectionate parent from whom he could not so easily have torn himself away.
"O'Flaherty V. C."
George Bernard Shaw