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"The Wearing of the Green"

"O, Paddy dear, and did you hear / The news that's going round? / The shamrock is forbid by laws / To grow on Irish ground."

— "The Wearing of the Green," Irish folk song lamenting the aftermath of the Rebellion of 1798

 

Image: [It's never easy to give unto Caesar what is Caesar's?] "Battle of Ross" by George Cruikshank, illustration for History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (1845)

 

This North Eastern Life: Quote of the Day for 2016-04-11

 

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Uploaded on April 11, 2016
Taken on April 27, 2011