About Boyle Roche:
Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet is better remembered for the language of his speeches than his politics—they were riddled with mixed metaphors ("Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I'll nip him in the bud"), malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase ("Why we should put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity, for what has posterity ever done for us?"). Roche may have been Richard Brinsley Sheridan's model for Mrs Malaprop. While arguing for a bill, Roche once said, "It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker, to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder!"
All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
Boyle RocheThe cup of Ireland's misery has been overflowing for centuries and is not yet half full.
Boyle Roche