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Boycott, Charles Cunningham
Boycott, Charles Cunningham (1837–97). Boycott came from Norfolk and after a career in the army retired as a captain. He was engaged in 1873 as land agent by Lord Erne for his Mayo estates. In September 1880 at Ennis, Parnell announced a new policy of ostracizing an opponent of the Irish Land League ‘by putting him into a sort of moral Coventry … as if he were a leper of old’. Boycott was an early victim and the following month his crops had to be harvested by Orange volunteers, protected by hundreds of police and military at great cost. John Dillon used the phrase ‘boycotting’ on 17 November in a speech at Cashel and it was reported in The Times. The verb made its way into French, German, and Russian, as well as English.
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JOHN CANNON. "Boycott, Charles Cunningham." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Boycott, Charles Cunningham." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-BoycottCharlesCunningham.html JOHN CANNON. "Boycott, Charles Cunningham." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-BoycottCharlesCunningham.html |
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Boycott, Charles Cunningham
Boycott, Charles Cunningham (1832–97) British land agent in Ireland. When, at the direction of the Land League, Irish tenants on the estate of Lord Erne in County Mayo asked for rent reductions and refused to pay their full rents, Boycott ordered their eviction (1880). PARNELL urged everyone to refuse all communication with Boycott and to ostracize his family. The policy was successful and Boycott was forced to leave. The practice of non-communication became known as boycotting.
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"Boycott, Charles Cunningham." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Boycott, Charles Cunningham." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-BoycottCharlesCunningham.html "Boycott, Charles Cunningham." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-BoycottCharlesCunningham.html |
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