Beginning of Famous Boycott Against Irish Landlord Captain Boycott.

Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry.

Viscount Mountmorres is killed near Clonbur, Co. Galway

Beginning of famous boycott against Irish landlord Captain Boycott.

Refusing to work for offending landlords, farmers demonstrated their united power in Mayo against Captain Boycott in 1880. The Prime Minister, W E Gladstone, drafted a Land Act in 1881 which gave tenants new rights and set up courts to control (and genera