Quote#Politics & Power
Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear
Quote byDion Boucicault · 1822–1890
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Boucicault's version of The Wearing of the Green , a traditional Irish ballad, as rendered in his play Arragh na Pogue, or the Wicklow Wedding (1864).
English (original)
Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
— Dion Boucicault
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