Captain Boycott’s tenants got together and sent a message to his mansion, the Lough Mask House, asking him to lower the rent by 25%. ... Humphrey, A fellow called, Boycott out in the West of Ireland ...

CAPTAIN BOYCOTT IS DEAD; Gave His Name to the Penalty of Which He Was the First Victim. OSTRACISED BY THE IRISH Scheme of Social and Business Excommunication Devised by Charles Stewart Parnell in ...

In the 1880s, the Irish Land League campaign against Captain Boycott and his boss left the landlord with no laborers to bring in the harvest, no shop willing to sell him goods, no laundry to take ...

The captain’s name has seldom been out of public circulation since then. Yet every new boycott inspires vigorous discussion over whether this sort of pressure on the powerful is effective or fair.