Arrah-na-Pogue, or The Wicklow Wedding (1864), a political melodrama by Dion Boucicault, set in the Wicklow Mountains during the Rebellion of 1798 [see United Irishmen]. Beamish MacCoul has returned from exile in France to organize an insurrection, and also to marry Fanny Power. He hides in the cottage of the heroine, Arrah-na-Pogue, and is discovered there on the eve of her wedding to Shaun the Post.




