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Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot , which brought him to Ireland.
Ewan MacColl wrote a song about the strike, titled "Ten young women and one young man", for a concert in Dublin. [8] [9] Christy Moore sings the song "Dunnes Stores" written by Sandra Kerr about the strike. [10] [3] The UK pop group, Latin Quarter dedicated their 1989 album Swimming Against the Stream to the 11 workers. [11]
The word boycott entered the English language during the Irish "Land War" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in County Mayo, Ireland. Captain Boycott was the target of social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne ...
Northern Ireland’s largest British unionist party has agreed to end a boycott that left the region’s people without a power-sharing administration for two years and rattled the foundations of ...
Irish Land League: Charles Boycott (origin of the term boycott) Desired land reform in Ireland [citation needed] 1891: Iranian Shia: United Kingdom: The Shah's granting of a tobacco monopoly to Britain: Tobacco Protest: 1891-1950 Australian unionists and local residents Local publicans and hotels around Australia
Joseph MacDonagh (brother of executed 1916 Easter Rising leader Thomas MacDonagh) oversaw the implementation of the boycott, by May 1921 there were 360 Belfast Boycott committees throughout Ireland, but it was enforced intermittently. The boycott was enforced by the IRA, who halted trains and lorries and destroyed goods from Belfast businesses ...
Donald Trump’s reelection has triggered a wave of social media posts and search interest in the “4B” movement, a fringe feminist trend that started in South Korea in 2018.
An Irish landlord reduced to begging for rent in an 1880 caricature Alternative legal systems began to be used by Irish nationalist organizations during the 1760s as a means of opposing British rule in Ireland. Groups which enforced different laws included the Whiteboys, Repeal Association, Ribbonmen, Irish National Land League, Irish National League, United Irish League, Sinn Féin, and the ...