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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.
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
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 ...
Christa Ackroyd – main presenter on Look North from 2001 until 2013. She had previously been a presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar during the 1990s.; Kate Adie – chief news correspondent for BBC News during which time she became well known for reporting from war zones around the world – her first major assignment was reporting on the Iranian embassy siege in London in 1980.
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'The View' has welcomed 22 women as co-hosts since the talk show premiered in 1997. With Meghan McCain soon departing, learn all about these outspoken women in this gallery.
In the United States, A Day Without a Woman was a general strike held on 8 March 2017 and organized by two different groups—the 2017 Women's March and a separate International Women's Strike movement. The two groups asked that women not work that day to protest the policies of the administration of Donald Trump, encouraging women to refrain ...