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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.
The Limerick boycott, also known as the Limerick pogrom, [1] [2] was an economic boycott waged against the small Jewish community in Limerick, Ireland, between 1904 and 1906. It was accompanied by assaults, stone throwing and intimidation, which caused many Jews to leave the city.
Northern Ireland’s Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) called the boycott "reckless" and "short-sighted." "The United States is a key economic partner for Northern Ireland," said DUP Leader Rt. Hon ...
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 First Minister Michelle O'Neill said on Friday she would not attend St Patrick's Day events at the White House in protest over President Donald Trump's position on Gaza. "We are ...
Eight of the strikers travelled to South Africa in 1985, but were not permitted to enter the country. Their deportation from South Africa received extensive news coverage in Ireland. [3] The strike lasted until April 1987 when the Irish government banned the import of South African goods. The ban came about as a result of public pressure in ...
The Fethard-on-Sea boycott was a controversy in 1957 involving Sean and Sheila Cloney (née Kelly), a married couple from the village of Fethard-on-Sea, County Wexford, Ireland. It resulted in a sectarian boycott , led by the local Catholic priest, of some members of the local Protestant community.
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 ...