CAPTAIN BOYCOTT V. THE WOMEN OF MAYO

By Elizabeth Malcolm The boycott in late 1880 of Captain Charles Boycott, the English-born agent for the earl of Erne’s Lough Mask estate in south-east Mayo, is still remembered today mainly because it introduced a useful new word into the English language. Historians writing about the 1879–82 Land War, such as Samuel Clark, J.S. Donnelly ... Read more

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