Captain Boycott

Having your name go into the language is a form of immortality, like Captain Boycott, Captain Lynch and so forth.

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Let the landlords of Ireland resign their unpopular positions, follow the example of Captain Boycott, and nobody would molest them, but if they did not, they would be grievously surprised by and by, for they would make the discovery which Captain

The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1886. The Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, February, 1886. Various

For instance, the days of the Land League in Ireland originated the word _boycott_, which was the name of a very unpopular landlord, Captain Boycott.

How to Speak and Write Correctly Joseph Devlin

* In 1880, Lord Erne, an absentee Irish landlord, sent Captain Boycott to Connemara to subdue his irate tenants.

The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners Samuel Peter Orth 1897

We drove past the residence where Captain Boycott lived, a fine spacious house finished in plaster to imitate stone.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

I felt convinced that the people were not filled with an unreasoning hate against Captain Boycott.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862

I was wondering in my own mind about Captain Boycott.

The Letters of "Norah" on Her Tour Through Ireland Margaret Moran Dixon McDougall 1862