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He said when the artist first told him about the idea "he talked about the idea of different Paddies who have all done interesting things".

From BBC • Mar. 16, 2023

Paddies require enough water to keep rice plants partially submerged to grow.

From Reuters • Jun. 16, 2015

Paddies were blackened with salt water, the rice crop destroyed.

From Time Magazine Archive

Tom immediately told him he should leave that place, and an altercation commenced; but even an electioneering dispute could not but savour of fun and repartee, between Paddies.

From Handy Andy, Volume One A Tale of Irish Life, in Two Volumes by Lover, Samuel

“The toil for Ireland once begun, We never will give o’er, Nor own a land on earth but one— We’re Paddies evermore.”

From The Revival of Irish Literature Addresses by Sir Charles Gavan Duffy, K.C.M.G, Dr. George Sigerson, and Dr. Douglas Hyde by Duffy, Charles Gavan