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The first was Captain Boycott, a 1946 romantic novel by Phillip Rooney. This was the basis for the 1947 film Captain Boycott—directed by Frank Launder and starred Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Alastair Sim, and Cecil Parker as Charles Boycott. [38] More recently the story was the subject of the 2012 novel Boycott, by Colin C. Murphy. [39]
Lord Erne is also remembered as the employer of Captain Charles Boycott, [4] whose mishandling of relations with agricultural workers on Lord Erne's estate in County Mayo caused a political and public order crisis and provoked the strategy that gave the English language the term to boycott. [5]
Cunningham had married twice, first to Miss Boycott, and secondly to Miss Proby. [22] He had a number of children. His son joined the navy but died at sea in 1822. [19] Cunningham spent the later years of his life living with his daughters at the family seat of Oak Lawn House in Eye. He died there at the age of 80 on 11 March 1834. [19]
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 ...
Boycott is a novel by Irish author Colin C. Murphy, published in 2012. The story is based on the real-life events in Ireland surrounding Captain Charles Boycott, which led to the word 'boycott' entering the English language.
HMS 'Clyde' Arriving at Sheerness After the 'Nore' Mutiny, 30 May 1797. Captain Charles Cunningham commissioned Clyde in April 1796. She shared with Venerable, Repulse, Tamar, and the cutters Flora and Princess Royal in the proceeds of the capture on 6 September of Hare.
Crichton's assistant discovered the manuscript on one of Crichton's computers after his death in 2008, along with an unfinished novel, Micro (2011). [1]According to Marla Warren, there is evidence that Crichton had been working on Pirate Latitudes at least since the 1970s; to substantiate her position, she quotes a statement by Patrick McGilligan in the March 1979 issue of American Film that ...
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