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Boycott continued to spend holidays in Ireland, and according to Joyce Marlow, he left Ireland without bitterness. [37] In early 1897, Boycott's health became very poor. In an attempt to improve his health, he and his wife went on a cruise to Malta. [37] In Brindisi, he became seriously ill, and had to return to England. [37]
Opposition to colonial taxation without representation: Continental Association: 1848: Milan: Austria: Austrian state monopolies: Five Days of Milan: 1880: 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 ...
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 ...
YouTube Shorts has pulled out a new weapon in its battle against short-form video juggernaut TikTok: watermarks. Going forward, the video giant will add a watermark icon to YouTube Shorts videos ...
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 ...
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The demonstration was inspired by South Korea’s “4B” movement against gender-based violence where some women in that country have vowed to follow the four “no’s” — no sex, no dating ...
The Control of Economic Activity (Occupied Territories) Bill 2018 [1] (commonly known as the Occupied Territories Bill [2]) is a proposed Irish law that would ban and criminalise "trade with and economic support for illegal settlements in territories deemed occupied under international law", most notably Israeli settlements in Israeli-occupied territories. [3]