rapparee

Later in the century, they became known as rapparee.

There are many tales in the oral folklore about this Rapparee.

There is an old folk song devoted to the subject of the Rapparee:

The bloody man, the more than Hun, the sottish rapparee, he will not die.

Doing the rapparee and Rory of the hill.

Shane Crosagh subsequently became a notorious outlaw, or rapparee.

Rapparee is a cove in the North Devon town of Ilfracombe.

But it was Dennis who suggested Clan Mackenzie, the black-hearted rapparee!

Mac Mhurchaidh was a tóraidhe or rapparee, and in 1740 the leader of a strong band of raparees.

Rapparee may refer to:

The 17th century rapparee Redmond O'Hanlon was a Poyntzpass native.

Possibly previously a relatively wealthy landowner, he became a 'rapparee' or brigand following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland.

It is said that Ryan became a rapparee or outlaw after shooting a tax collector dead during a quarrel over the confiscation of a poor woman's cow.

Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh, Irish soldier and rapparee (died 1667)

He served in the army of King James II in Ireland, and afterwards became a Rapparee.

When the French negotiations failed, Aodh Ruadh returned to Armagh in 1671 and became a notorious highwayman or rapparee.

One of Carleton's biographers alleges that the novelist glorified a 17th-century rapparee because he did not feel able to praise the Ribbonmen of his own era.

Dónal Ó Maoláine, aka Eamon Mhagaine, Irish poet and rapparee, fl.

The song is about a Rapparee (Highwayman), who is betrayed by his wife or lover, and is one of the most widely performed traditional Irish songs.

Highwayman and rapparee Captain Gallagher surrenders to the authorities, is tried at Foxford and executed at Castlebar.

It was repaired thereafter and became the residence of the rapparee, Captain Cape, and his associated bandits, who waylaid travellers, and plundered the surrounding countryside.

Redmond Count O'Hanlon, The Irish Rapparee (Google Books)

Ó Derrig was a rapparee active in County Kildare in the early 1650s in the aftermath of the Irish Confederate Wars.

After realizing there would be no restoration of the O'Hanlon clan's property, Redmond took to the hills around Slieve Gullion and became an outlaw, or rapparee.

Legend has it that the Earl of Tyrone fled Ireland in 1607 and was shipwrecked at Rapparee Beach, in Ilfracombe harbour, to the west of the village.