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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...
- Ireland. The club
fields teams in
hurling as
Rapparees and in
Gaelic football as Starlights. The
Rapparees Starlights club was
founded in 1972, following...
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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...
- even in the 21st century, and in the 1740s was the
perfect hideaway for
rapparees.
McMurphy also took
Paddy Mac Decker's daughter, Molly, as his mistress...
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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...
- Oulart-the
Ballagh v Crossabeg-Ballymurn
Rapparees v
Rathnure Shelmaliers v
Ferns St Aidan's Crossabeg-Ballymurn v
Rapparees Ferns St Aidan's v Oulart-the Ballagh...
- 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...
- 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...
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Irish contemporaries, the "tories", in part
resisted English occupation.
Rapparees –
Irish guerrillas who
fought for
James II
after the
Revolution of 1688...
