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Right boys
Also Right-boys, Rightboys.
[See quot. 1787.]
An irregular association formed in the south-west of Ireland in 1785–6, and connected with political or agrarian disorders in the later years of the 18th century.
1787New Annual Reg. i. 43/2 A person very early distinguished himself among them,..whose real or assumed appellation was that of captain Right; and from him they soon became known by the denomination of Right Boys. 1808Cobbett Weekly Reg. XIII. 126 White Boys, Right Boys, and various other denominations, and combinations of lawless nocturnal insurgents associated. 1819Scott Let. in Lockhart (1837) IV. ix. 301 Ireland..has never been without White Boys, or Right Boys,..or some wild association or another for disturbing the peace of the country. 1842S. C. Hall Ireland II. 121 In 1785, however, they [the Whiteboys] re-appeared under the name of ‘Right-boys’. |