Boycott

by Colin Murphy

  ‘The Role of the Church in the Land Movement’, article, The Galway Advertiser, 20 August 2009

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  Websites:

  http://www.ricorso.net/ Archbishop John McHale

  http://www.knock-shrine.com/ Archdeacon Cavanagh

  http://en.wikisource.org/ Bernard Henry Becker

  http://www.generalmichaelcollins.com/ Buckshot Forster

  http://www.achurchnearyou.com/burgh-st-peter-st-mary/ Burgh St. Peters

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  http://www.maynoothcollege.ie/ Past Figures - Dr Patrick Murray

  General Reference

  ‘A Sweat-house at Inishmaine, Near Ballinrobe’, article for the Mayo Historical and Archaeological Society (2005)

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  Websites:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen & Ginter Cigarettes www.archive.org/

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colt_Single_Action_Army

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dawning_of_the_Day

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  The Great Famine

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  Websites:

  http://multitext.ucc.ie/ Charles Edward Trevelyan

  http://www.irishhistorylinks.net/ Contemporary Reports & Images of the Great Famine

  http://www.mayo-ireland.ie/ Famine in Mayo: Letters & Reports To The Ballina Chronicle

  http://maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/Famine.html The Great Famine 1845 - 1849

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  http://www.irelandoldnews.com/ Mayo 1849

  Lord Mountmorres

  New York Times Archive 1880

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  The Times Archive 1880

  Websites:

  http://maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/LandIssues.html Lord Mountmorres’ Murder

  http://www.thepeerage.com/

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  Charles Stewart Parnell

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  Websites:

  http://multitext.ucc.ie/d/Charles_Stewart_Parnell

  http://www.libraryireland.com/HullHistory/Parnell1.php Parnell and the Land League

  United States of America

  Brown, Dee, The American West (Simon & Schuster 1995)

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  Websites:

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Order_of_Hibernians

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache

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  Workhouses

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  Websites

  http://www.workhouses.org.uk/Ballinrobe

  http://www.askaboutireland.ie/building-milford-workhous/

  http://maggieblanck.com/Mayopages/Ballinrobe.html The Workhouse & Famine in Ballinrobe

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  Museums & Libraries:

  Clare County Library, Ennis, County Clare

  The Clew Bay Heritage Centre, Westport Quay, County Mayo

  The Dunbrody Famine Ship & Museum, New Ross, County Wexford

  The Jeanie Johnson Famine Ship & Museum, Dublin

  The National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin.
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  The National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, County Mayo

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  Wicklow Gaol, Wicklow Town, County Wicklow

  Contemporary Map References:

  Bald, William, Map of Maritime County Mayo, 1830, Mayo County Library

  Ordnance Survey Ireland Map of 1829-1842

  Newspaper Reports and Sources

  The Anglo Celt

  The Ballina Chronicle

  The Ballinrobe Chronicle

  The Belfast News Letter

  The Belfast Telegraph

  The Birmingham Daily Gazette

  The California Daily Alta

  The Chicago Inter Ocean

  The Connaught Telegraph

  The Cork Reporter

  The Daily Express (Dublin)

  The Daily News (London)

  Le Figaro (Paris)

  The Freeman’s Journal

  The Illustrated London News

  The Irish Canadian

  The Irish Times

  The Los Angeles Herald

  The Mayo Constitution

  The Mayo Telegraph

  The Melbourne Argus

  The Montreal True Witness

  The Morning Herald (London)

  The Nation

  The Nationalist

  The Nenagh Guardian

  Neue Freie Presse, Austria

  The New York Irish World

  The New York Times

  The New Zealand Tablet

  The Pall Mall Gazette

  The Pictorial Times (London)

  The Press Association (London)

  La Presse (Paris)

  The Quincy Daily Whig (Boston)

  The Sacramento Daily Union

  The Southland Times (New Zealand)

  The Spectator (London)

  The Sydney Morning Herald

  The Telegraph (London)

  The Times (London)

  The Trawley Herald

  The Tuam Herald

  The West Coast Times (New Zealand)

  The Yorkshireman

  Zierikzeesche Nieuwsbode (Holland)

  About the Author

  Colin C. Murphy was the Creative Director of one of Ireland’s leading advertising agencies for over a decade, but left the advertising business in 2009 to pursue a full-time career in writing. He has had a lifelong fascination with history in general and is the author of The Most Famous Irish People You’ve Never Heard Of, concerning Irish emigrants throughout history who earned fame abroad but are little known at home. He has also written a light-hearted look at Irish history entitled The Feckin’ Book of Irish History.

  Boycott is his first novel. A subject he stumbled across many years ago, the Boycott incident immediately fascinated him because of the ‘David and Goliath’ aspect of the small Mayo community using passive resistance to take on the British Empire, and the fact that it proved to be one of the earliest examples of how the power of mass communication could bring the events in a tiny community to global attention. Between researching, writing and editing, Boycott has taken over two years to complete.

  When not writing, Colin is often to be found wandering Ireland’s mountains. A keen hillwalker, he is also a committee member of Mountainviews.ie, a free hillwalking resource for anyone who loves Ireland’s dwindling wild areas. He is married to Gráinne and has a son, Emmet, and a daughter, Cíara, and he and his family are from Dublin. After his native county, Mayo is the county he loves the most, although as yet he has failed to trace any Mayo ancestors. But as he feels he must have a bit of Mayo blood in him, he intends to keep looking.

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