← Mayo agent, Captain Charles Boycott, was sent to a moral Coventry. He described his plight in a letter to The Times ...people collect in crowds upon my farm and order off all my workmen. The shopkeepers have been warned to stop all supplies to my hous- January 1, 1
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