"When the law can stop the blades of grass From growing as they grow, And when the leaves in summer time Their verdure dare not show, Then I will change the colour I wear in my caubeen, But till that day I'll stick for aye To wearing of the green."
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The Wearing of the Green, in Arragh na Pogue, or the Wicklow Wedding (1864)
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Dion Boucicault
Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 or 1822) β 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.
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