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School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)

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Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
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Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 333

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    Johnson, and James Hughes. They taught the people of the district to resist the unjust landlords and refuse to pay unjust rents, and resolve no longer to be ground into the earth by the heel of landlordism. They had one powerful weapon which was "boycotting".
    "Boycotting" took its name from Captain Boycott, a harsh land-agent in Mayo, whom the people ostracised.
    They refused to work for him, to speak to him, to buy anything from him, to sell anything to him, to let anyone serve or help him, and by this means they drove him out of the country.
    These speeches from the platforms on Sundays, stirred up the people of the parish, and were successful in frightening both the landlords and the landgrabbers.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Patrick Bolger
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Principal
    Address
    Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford