Boycott
:This page is about boycott as a form of protest. For other uses of the word boycott see Boycott (disambiguation).
Origins of the word
The word boycott is derived from Captain Charles Boycott, an English evicting land agent in Ireland who was subject to a boycott organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. Boycott, an agent of Lord Erne in County Mayo, was unable to hire anyone to harvest his crops (until Irish Unionists and the British Army volunteered) and at one point needed 7,000 men to protect him. He eventually was forced to temporarily withdraw from Ireland.
Related Topics:
Charles Boycott - Ireland - Irish Land League - 1880 - County Mayo - Unionist - British Army
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