As rents on the land increased in northern Ireland, militant agrarian movements formed to protest them; the multi faith Hearts of Oaks and the protestant Hearts of Steel.

A century later, trouble spreads throughout Ireland with the introduction of the Irish Land Act.

A strike is called against a land agent as the crops are due to harvest and the community shuns him, coining the word 'boycott'. Fifty Orangemen travel to break it.

20,000 are on strike for 5 months in the bitterest workers' dispute in Irish history.