Rapparees or raparees (from the Irish ropairí, plural of ropaire, whose primary meaning is "thruster, stabber", and by extension a wielder of the half-pike...

A rapparee was Irish guerrilla fighters in the 1690s, and a name given to bandits and highwaymen in Ireland. Rapparee may also refer to: Rapparee Cove...

Rapparee is a cove in the North Devon town of Ilfracombe. The cove is the site of the shipwreck of the transport London, which sank on 9 October 1796 in...

Rapparees Starlights GAA is a Gaelic Athletic Association club located in Enniscorthy, County Wexford, Ireland. The club fields teams in hurling as Rapparees...

individual who engages in unauthorized warfare against foreign countries Rapparee, the Irish usage Meadowbrook Freebooters, American polo team Freebooter...

In the music of Ireland, Irish rebel songs are folk songs which are primarily about the various rebellions against British Crown rule. Songs about prior...

Seamus McMurphy (Irish: Séamus Mór Mac Murchaidh) was an Irish poet and rapparee, who lived c. 1720-1750. He was born at Carnally, Creggan parish, near...

often with specific mention of counties Cork and Kerry. The song, about a rapparee (highwayman) who is betrayed by his wife or lover, is one of the most widely...

in Ulster following the Restoration. Tory was also used to refer to a rapparee and later applied to Confederates or Cavaliers in arms. The term Tory was...

poetry composed in the Irish language and widespread popular support for rapparees, or Jacobite guerrillas, like Éamonn an Chnoic, John Hurley, and Galloping...

Balkans Kirdzhalis Klepht, anti-Ottoman insurgents in Greece and Cyprus Rapparee, Irish guerrillas during the 1690s Williamite war Robber baron Sardinian...

the OED. puss – As in sourpuss, comes from Irish pus, a pouting mouth. rapparee – An Irish highwayman, from ropaire (a stabber) rath – A strong circular...

Michael "Galloping" Hogan was an Irish rapparee or brigand following the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. He was born in the parish of Doon, at the foot...

equipping and training this number was impossible and many were organised as Rapparees or irregulars, largely beyond Tyrconnell's control. Despite assurances...

18th-century County Tipperary folk hero, composer of Irish bardic poetry, and rapparee; an outlawed Jacobite from the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who still held...

Model Army. Their contemporaries in Ireland became known as "tories". Rapparees, Irish guerrillas of a later generation, fought for King James II after...

Irish contemporaries, the "tories", in part resisted English occupation. Rapparees – Irish guerrillas who fought for James II after the Revolution of 1688...

Colonel Sir John Hurley, Jacobite soldier and rapparee, fl. December 1694. Hurley was a son of William Hurly, 3rd Baronet, who was an M.P. for Kilmallock...

Bands (alternate title: The Space Pirate, author's preferred title: The Rapparee) (1953) Vandals of the Void (young adult novel) (1953) To Live Forever...

Northern Irish broadcaster Seamus McMurphy (c. 1720–1750), Irish poet and rapparee Seamus McNamara (born 1985), American-born former Australian rules footballer...

Vietnam- Viet Cong's army Pindari – 18th century irregular horsemen in India Rapparee - Irish guerillas (1690s) Righteous Army— militias organised at several...

actress Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh (died 1667), Irish soldier and rapparee Edward Costello (1887–1916), Irish Citizen Army volunteer who died during...

Dónal Ó Maoláine, aka Eamon Mhagaine, Irish poet and rapparee, fl. 18th century. Ó Maoláine, a native of County Mayo, is described by O'Rourke as a "shadowy...

Gallagher (died 1818) was an Irish highwayman who, as one of the later Irish Rapparees (guerrillas), led a bandit group in the hills of the Irish countryside...

hAnluain), (c. 1640 – 25 April 1681) was a 17th-century Irish tóraidhe or rapparee; an outlawed member of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who still held to...

John Mullan, more commonly known as Shane Crossagh O'Mullan, was an Irish rapparee/outlaw, who was executed in the 1720s at the Diamond, in Derry city. Shane...

Colonel Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh, Irish soldier and Rapparee, died on Sunday 3 March 1667. Mac Coisdealbhaigh was a member of the Costello family...

Protestant Squire, after being invited to his home for saving him from Red Rapparee. Reilly is required to convert if he wishes to marry into the family, with...

printmaker, and sculptor. He was the recognised hereditary chieftain of the Rapparee Sept the O'Donoghues of Ross. He was better known as the artist and sculptor...

O'Hanlon, British writer Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw), 17th-century Irish rapparee Rory O'Hanlon, Irish politician Rory O'Hanlon (Irish judge), Irish High...