Redmond O'Hanlon (outlaw)

For the 20th-century travel writer, see Redmond O'Hanlon.

Count Redmond O'Hanlon (Irish: Réamonn Ó 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 the code of conduct of the traditional chiefs of the Irish clans.

Historian John J. Marshall has called Redmond O'Hanlon Ireland's answer to Robin Hood and Rob Roy MacGregor.[1] Stephen Dunford has further dubbed O'Hanlon, "The Irish Skanderbeg."

  1. ^ John J. Marshall, Irish Tories, Rapparees and Robbers; With Some Account of the Most Notable, Tyrone Printing Company, Dungannon, 1927. Page 23.