IRISH AG 



so obviously from the Irish national standpoint 

 it one cannot but wonder a^ at 



the 1 politic 



in imagine t: 

 evci Land Bill is to prove a ' final 



< movement of th- year 1878 was ulti- 



telv organised as the Land League, founded 



i el Da\ It found if <ler in 



were, 



:aent ol land a fierce 



Agrarian a^ in livland had 



herto been generally accompanied by agrar 

 murders. The new movement did not fav 



rm of political persuasion, not exactly 



ut because it had at its disposal 



method that of the boycott. No 



landlord evicted an at in order to lose 



1)\- the transaction; the eviction took 



place in order that the land might be leased on 



better conditions to another and a solvent tenant. 



Now every n > ventured to take the land 



of an evicted tenant was boycotted at the 



tance of the League, i.e., he was cut off from 



intercourse with his kind. The boycott was 



led even into the church, for the clergy 



neither could nor would check it. 3 The means 



-15. 



boycott" 



comes from tl .iptain Boycott in 



-o, against whom this sen! mmunication was 



ted. 



