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"Captain Boycott"
by Philip Rooney

Title  Captain Boycott
In the 1880s there was a push in the English parliament to give Ireland Home Rule, or as we would say, self governance. Charles Stewart Parnell, though a protestant landowner and Member of Parliament, pushed for Home Rule holding rallies where he preached against unfairly high rents on tenant farmers. In Co. Mayo, 1880, the tenant farmers of Capt. Boycott refused to pay rent. At first they used violence to keep from being evicted. Then, they joined the Land League and a new idea spread: shunning. So, no one would even speak to Boycott. No one would work in his house or in his fields. Unable to bring in his crops, Boycott hired outsiders and had the army brought in to protect them. When it hit the papers, the whole country's eyes were on Mayo. In the end the tenants won thus coining the term boycott, forever.			Click picture for more info
Year        1947	Type   Drama	Rating   NR
Director  Frank Launder		Writer  Frank Launder
Cast  Stewart Granger, Kathleen Ryan, Cecil Parker, Mervyn Johns,   Alastair Sim, Noel Purcell