a Williamite regiment, relates that the rapparees hid their weapons in bogs when Williamite troops were in the area and melted into the civilian population, only to re-arm and reappear when the troops were gone. The rapparees were a considerable help to the Jacobite war effort, tying down thousands of Williamite troops who had to protect supply depots and columns. The famous rapparees "Galloping Hogan" and Éamonn an Chnoic are said to have guided Sir Patrick Sarsfield's cavalry raid that destroyed the Williamite siege train at the siege of Limerick in 1690. Fiction Rapparees have been mentioned in fiction, for example in Thomas Flanagan's Year of the French: "Joshua's son Jonathan, who in 1690 had raised his company to serve King William at the Boyne and Aughrim and Limerick, rode home to Mount Pleasant and defended it for five years against the sporadic sallies of the rapparees, the swordsmen, masterless now, of the defeated James Stuart". There is a folk song (of 19th century origin - see the reference to "Peelers"), devoted to the Rapparee: See also Willy Brennan Liam Deois Shane Bernagh Éamonn an Chnoic James Freney Black Francis Corrigan Captain Gallagher Galloping Hogan Tomás Bán Mac Aodhagáin Dubhaltach Caoch Mac Coisdealbhaigh Tomás Láidir Mac Coisdealbhaigh Seamus McMurphy Madden Raparees GAC Donogh Dáll Ó Derrig Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw) Neesy O'Haughan Dónal Ó Maoláine References Notes Bibliography 17th century in Ireland Williamite War in Ireland Guerrilla wars Irish outlaws Irish Jacobites