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)

External links

• Works by Dion Boucicault at Project Gutenberg
• The Fawkes Boucicault Collection at the University of Kent
• Dion Boucicault Theatre Collection at the University of South Florida
• Dion Boucicault Digital Collection at the University of South Florida