Portrait: Charles Boycott, an English land agent in Ireland

22 March 2023 | Author/Destination: | Rubric: Portrait Reading Time:  5 minutes

Caricature of Charles Cunningham Boycott in Vanity Fair, 1881 © Vanity Fair magazine

Caricature of Charles Cunningham Boycott in Vanity Fair, 1881 © Vanity Fair magazine

Charles Cunningham Boycott was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the term boycott. He had served in the British Army 39th Foot, which brought him to Ireland. After retiring from the army, Boycott worked as a land agent for Lord Erne, a landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo.   read more…

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