Shortly before this happened, a member of the Irish Land League known as Charles Stewart Parnell had proposed dealing with landlords and land agents through a peaceful form of social ostracism, rather than resorting to violence. Parnell proposed those in the local community should simply ignore the offender and conduct no business with them.
Despite the short-term economic strife it bought them, his workers stopped working in his fields and stables, as well as at his house. Local businessmen stopped trading with him and even the local postman refused to deliver his mail! Because of the action taken against him, Boycott was facing financial peril as nobody would take on the job of harvesting his crops.
Labourers would not work for him, local shops stopped serving him food had to be brought in from elsewhere for him and his family , and he even had great trouble getting his letters delivered. In the end, his crops were harvested that autumn through the help of fifty volunteers from the north of the country, who worked under the protection of nine hundred soldiers. The events aroused so much passion that his name became an instant byword. It was first used - in our modern sense of collective and organised ostracism - in the Times of London in November , even while his crops were still being belatedly harvested; within weeks it was everywhere.
It was soon adopted by newspapers throughout Europe, with versions of his name appearing in French, German, Dutch and Russian. In response, a group of about 50 Ulster Loyalists volunteered to come to Boycott's aid and bring in his crops. The worsening of the situation was carried in newspapers all over the world.
The Brooklyn Eagle reported on November 9, Four hundred infantry have just arrived at Ballinrobe, and will encamp near Lough Mask. Boycott, Lord Erne's agent, for whom the local peasantry, at the instigation of the Land League, refuse to work. The Government will protect a moderate force of laborers, but refuse to furnish anything approaching armed demonstrations, which would certain provoke a collision. Newspapers sent correspondents to the West of Ireland to cover the story and the Fifty Orangemen from County Cavan had to be guarded by a regiment of the 19th Royal Hussars and more than 1, men of the Royal Irish Constabulary were deployed to protect the harvesters.
Boycott left Ireland on December 1, , in disgrace, his name forever attached to a campaign to bring down tyrants. He died at the age of 65 on 19 June in his home in Flixton, after an illness earlier that year. His name lives on in infamy forever. Boycotting had dramatically strengthened the power of the peasants, and by the end of , there were reports of boycotting from all over Ireland.
The events at Lough Mask had also increased the power of the Land League, and the popularity of Parnell as a leader. Non-violent and successful it was one of the most successful tactics ever used against the British in Ireland. Love Irish history? Share your favorite stories with other history buffs in the IrishCentral History Facebook group. Sign up to IrishCentral's newsletter to stay up-to-date with everything Irish!
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