"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
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| "Battle of Ross" by George Cruikshank, illustration for History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798 (1845) |
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