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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
To further Irish-language teaching in Northern Ireland; Same-sex marriage to be extended to Northern Ireland [172] (It was subsequently legalised via an Act of the UK Parliament in 2019.) [173] Passing a ban on conversion therapy. [174] A pay cap for Sinn Féin TDs tied to the "average industrial wage". [175] [176]
Ready those dance moves now, now, now, now. Beyoncé's new country song "Texas Hold 'Em" has fans line dancing all over social media. "I wanna learn country dance now,” one fan posted on X. The ...
1920 Munitions Strike, by railway workers refusing to transport British munitions, part of the Irish revolutionary period. [1] [2] [3] 1922 Irish postal strike, the first strike in the newly-formed Irish Free State. [4] [5]
In preparation for a boycott against cereal goliath Kellogg’s, TikToker Mandy Donley said, Let them eat flakes. The 31-year-old home baker is milling her own corn to make homemade Corn Flakes, a ...