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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]
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.
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 ...
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
Men and women participated in food riots in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany (where contemporary reports claimed that women initiated many riots). Dutch tax riots in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were more numerous and often more violent, with participants of both lower and lower-middle classes, whereas food riots drew ...
The 4B movement essentially encouraged women to boycott all types of relationships with men — both romantic and platonic. 4B was also born out of another Korean feminist movement, tal-corset ...
Mairead Maguire [3] [6] (born 27 January 1944), also known as Mairead Corrigan Maguire and formerly as Mairéad Corrigan, is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. She co-founded, with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown, the Women for Peace, which later became the Community for Peace People, an organization dedicated to encouraging a peaceful resolution of the Troubles in Northern Ireland. [7]
Most of Spain's World Cup-winning players ended their boycott of the women's national team early Wednesday after the government intervened to help shape an agreement that was expected to lead to ...