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The relief of Captain Boycott

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.

Submitted by flaneur on October 25, 2013

Book traversal links for A short history of Ireland - BBC Radio 7

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