Michael Davitt
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Michael Davitt was an Irish republican activist for a variety of causes, especially Home Rule and land reform. Following an eviction when he was four years old, Davitt's family migrated to England. He
Lazybeds for potato cultivation, County Mayo
Land League poster from the No Rent Manifesto period
Portrait of Davitt by Napoleon Sarony, holding Land League sign
Portrait of Davitt by William Orpen, c. 1906
Charles Boycott
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Captain 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,
Boycott as caricatured by Spy (Leslie Ward) in Vanity Fair, January 1881
St Mary's church at Burgh St Peter in Norfolk, where Boycott's father William Boycott was vicar, and where Charles Boycott is buried
The former house of Charles Boycott on Achill Island. The house has since been modernised and renovated.