Dion Boucicault

Dionysius Lardner Boursiquot (26 December 1820 or 1822) – 18 September 1890), commonly known as Dion Boucicault, was an Irish actor and playwright famed for his melodramas.

Quotes

 * Oh Paddy dear, and did you hear The news that's going round? The shamrock is forbid by law To grow on Irish ground.
 * 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)


 * 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.
 * The Wearing of the Green, in Arragh na Pogue, or the Wicklow Wedding (1864)