"with his harvest by Orange Order volunteers from two counties in Ulster, and protection by the Royal Irish Constabulary and a detachment of the 19th Royal Hussars, Boycott found his position untenable and left Ireland under military escort. The incident led both to land reform in Ireland and to Boycott's name becoming a verb for ""a systematic refusal of normal commercial or social relations"". In 1886 Boycott became a land agent at Flixton in Suffolk. He died there in 1897 and was buried at Burgh St Peter, where his nephew Rev. Arthur St John Boycott conducted his funeral. Burgh St"
"C. Murphy. Charles Boycott Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb ""to 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 (John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne), a landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo. In 1880, as part of its campaign for the Three Fs (fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale) and specifically in"
"Charles Boycott Charles Cunningham Boycott (12 March 1832 – 19 June 1897) was an English land agent whose ostracism by his local community in Ireland gave the English language the verb ""to 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 (John Crichton, 3rd Earl Erne), a landowner in the Lough Mask area of County Mayo. In 1880, as part of its campaign for the Three Fs (fair rent, fixity of tenure, and free sale) and specifically in resistance to"
"act set up the Irish Land Commission, a judicial body that would fix rents for a period of 15 years and guarantee fixity of tenure. According to ""The Annual Register"", the act was ""...probably the most important measure introduced into the House of Commons since the passing of the Reform Bill."" According to James Redpath, the verb ""to boycott"" was coined by Father O'Malley in a discussion between them on 23 September 1880. The following is Redpath's account: According to Joyce Marlow, the word was first used in print by Redpath in the ""Inter-Ocean"" on 12 October 1880. The coining"
"One suggested etymology of ""shoneen"" is """"seoinín"""", meaning ""Little John"" in Irish, referring to John Bull, a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular. John Honohan, a Land Leaguer from Donoughmore, County Cork, has been attributed to have written the following lines written in around 1890:: ""There is not in this wide world a creature so mean, As that mongrel of mongrels, the Irish shoneen!"" Irish politicians still take pains to avoid the label, since historically it has jeopardized their chances of re-election. Shoneenism Shoneenism is a pejorative term used in Ireland to describe Irishmen"
"Ordnance Survey and led to the incorrect conjecture by some such as John O'Donovan that the first element of the name derived from the Irish word ""tír"", meaning ""country"". Older phonetic forms of ""Tuatha Threna"" included Toaghrany, Toyghrayny, Toaghraine, Toaghranye, Towrany, Tuterany, Toghrany, Toorany, Turrany, and Torany, all of which are found in records from the early seventeenth century. The second element ""Threna"" is derived from the ""Uí Threna"" (), the name of a tribe that settled on the western boundaries of modern County Armagh, where the barony of Tiranny is located. In various Elizabethan maps of Ulster, they are"
"is clearly the old Irish term for erenagh or steward of churches lands. Nonetheless, it should be remembered that Moghane hillfort lies almost adjunct to the traditional McInerney lands of Dromoland, Ballynacraggie and Ballysallagh. Another interesting reference is that of a 19th-century manuscript held at the Royal Irish Academy and was scribed by Conchubhair Mac In Oirchinnigh of Baile Ban (Ballybawn) in Clare. The scribal note sets out his direct paternal line stretching back to the 17th century and claims descent from Donnchadha Mac Con Mara, the 12th century progenitor of the McInerney line and erenagh of Cill Da Luadh"
"and through most of the 19th century. In some areas the terms ""Ribbonmen"" and ""Molly Maguires"" were both used for similar activism but at different times. The main distinction between the two appears to be that the Ribbonmen were regarded as ""secular, cosmopolitan, and protonationalist"", with the Molly Maguires considered ""rural, local, and Gaelic"". Agrarian rebellion in Ireland can be traced to local concerns and grievances relating to land usage, particularly as traditional socioeconomic practices such as small-scale potato cultivation were supplanted by the fencing and pasturing of land (also known as enclosure). Agrarian resistance often took the form of"
"of the Marquis of Thomond"", while the Irish name, Móinín na gCloigeann (""little meadow or bog of the skulls""), appears to be a mistaken transfer from that of another place, also called Boston in English, near Cratloe in the south of the county. The ruins of ""Cluain Dubháin Castle"" and ""Skaghard Castle"" can be found near Lough Bunny. Today, the ruins of the castle are a reminder of the past sieges endured by its previous occupants. Mahon O'Brien defended the castle for three months, before being killed by a musket ball during a siege of the castle laid by Richard"
"the English language during the Irish ""Land War"" and derives from Captain Charles Boycott, the land agent of an absentee landlord, Lord Erne, who lived in Lough Mask House, near Ballinrobe in County Mayo, Ireland, who was subject to social ostracism organized by the Irish Land League in 1880. As harvests had been poor that year, Lord Erne offered his tenants a ten percent reduction in their rents. In September of that year, protesting tenants demanded a twenty five percent reduction, which Lord Erne refused. Boycott then attempted to evict eleven tenants from the land. Charles Stewart Parnell, in a"
"Termonn Termonn is an Irish (Gaelic) word meaning ""sanctuary, boundary"". Other spellings include ""tearmann, tarman"" and ""termondd"". It denotes land belonging to Irish early Christian monasteries and churches on which rights of sanctuary prevailed. The word is common in many place names in Ireland. It is derived from Latin ""terminus"" meaning goal, end point or boundary. In ancient Rome, Terminus was the name of the deity who presided over boundaries and landmarks. The placement of termonns in the Irish landscape suggests they were also associated with transit at boundaries across rivers and bays. Cattle and other moveable forms of wealth"
"Eleanor Knott, the twentieth-century editor and translator of his works for the Irish Texts Society, suggested that these were lands originally granted to his ancestors by the O'Conor Sligo family, who were patrons of the family. Ó hUiginn evidently enjoyed high status in his lifetime, reflected in the lords to whom he addressed some of his poems. They included Cú Chonnacht Mag Uidhir (died 1589), Patrick Plunkett, Baron Dunsany (d. 1601), Aodh Mac Seáin Ó Broin (d. 1579), Aodh Mag Uidhir (died 1600), Cormac Ó hEadhra (died 1612), Brían na Múrtha Ó Ruairc (died 1591), Conn Ó Dónaill (died 1583),"
"the local name for townland) of land in Tullyhunco at an annual rent of £4 5""s"". 4""d."", to ""Bryan McKearnan, gentleman"", comprising the modern-day townlands of Clontygrigny, Cornacrum, Cornahaia, Derrinlester, Dring, Drumlarah, Ardlougher and Kiltynaskellan. Under the terms of the grant, McKearnan was obliged to build a house on this land. The said Brian 'Bán' Mág Tighearnán (anglicized 'Blonde' Brian McKiernan) was chief of the McKiernan Clan of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland from 1588 until his death on September 4, 1622. In a visitation by George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes in autumn 1611, it was recorded, ""McKyernan removed to"
"Skreen Skreen () is a small village and parish in County Sligo, Ireland. St Adomnán, the first biographer of St Columba (Colmcille) and one of his successors at Iona, first served as abbot at Skreen Abbey, which allegedly acquired its name from the relics of Adomnán. The abbey was possessed by Viking raiders in the 9th century, who pillaged and razed it. Besides his Columba biography, Adomnán is known for the the ""Law of the Innocents"", protecting women, children, and other non-combatants from being casualties of war. The name Adamnan is, according to Cormac’s Glossary, an Irish diminutive of Adam."
"an anglicisation of the Irish name ""An Lorgain"". This literally means ""the shin"", but in placenames means a shin-shaped hill or ridge (i.e. one that is long, low and narrow). Earlier names of Lurgan include ""Lorgain Chlann Bhreasail"" (anglicised ""Lurganclanbrassil"", meaning ""shin-shaped hill of Clanbrassil"") and ""Lorgain Bhaile Mhic Cana"" (anglicised ""Lurganvallivackan"", meaning ""shin-shaped hill of McCann's settlement""). The McCanns were a sept of the O'Neills and Lords of Clanbrassil before the Plantation of Ulster period in the early 17th century. About 1610, during the Plantation and at a time when the area was sparsely populated by Irish Gaels, the"
"United States' Social Security Administration , ""Keenan"" was the 607th most popular first name for newborns in the United States in 2006, which is a decrease from being the 362nd most popular in 1992. Keenan Keenan (Cianán) is a male Irish name which means ""ancient, distant"". ""Keenan"" is an Anglicisation of the Irish name ""Cianán"" which is a diminutive of ""Cian"". The Ó Cianáin clan (Keenan) were the traditional historians to the McGuire clan. Recorded as O'Keenan and more usually Keenan, this is an Irish surname. Found mainly in the Ulster and northern counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan, it originates"
"the beginning of the century is ""Cúirt an Mheán Oíche"" (The Midnight Court), a vigorous and inventive satire by Brian Merriman from County Clare. The copying of manuscripts continued unabated. One such collection was in the possession of Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin, a teacher and linen draper of County Kilkenny who kept a unique diary in vernacular Irish from 1827 to 1835 covering local and international events, with a wealth of information about daily life. The Great Famine of the 1840s hastened the retreat of the Irish language. Many of its speakers died of hunger or fever, and many more emigrated."
"the land, recorded as recently as 1879. She is also associated with sites such as Toberanna (), County Tyrone; Dunany (), County Louth; Lissan (), County Londonderry; and ""Cnoc Áine"" near Teelin, County Donegal. In early tales she is associated with the semi-mythological King of Munster, Ailill Aulom, who is said to have raped her, an assault ending in Áine biting off his ear, hence the name ""Aulom"" ""one-eared"". By Old Irish law, only an ""unblemished"" person can rule; by maiming him this way, Áine rendered him unfit to be king. As an embodiment of sovereignty, she can both grant"
"hands into those of The 1st Viscount Cremorne (1725–1813), an Irish peer from County Monaghan, who greatly beautified it. The name Cremorne is the name of a barony, an old administrative unit, in County Monaghan in Ireland. It is an Anglicisation of what in modern Irish is ""Críoch Mhúrn"". This roughly translates as the 'Bounds of Mourne', from the territorial domain of an ancient clan or sept called Mughdorna in Old Irish. The name is cognate with the Mountains of Mourne. The property was sold by the Dawson family, Barons Cremorne, in 1831 to a Baron de Berenger, who was"
"in a derogatory manner. Over time, as the numbers of servants dwindled through the 20th century, the term was retained in everyday use. The word ""culchie"" may instead be derived from the Irish word ', 'woods, forests'. It was used by townspeople, mainly in the western counties of Mayo and Galway, as a condescending or pejorative reference to people from rural areas. In the mid-1960s, it was adopted as a common term in Dublin, as a counter to the country people's use of the word ""jackeen"" for a Dublin person. The ""culchie"" spelling is common in the English-language media, based"
"Skene recommended the use of the words ""abthany"" or ""abthanry"". Many of these abthains passed into the hands of laymen, and were transmitted from father to son. they paid certain ecclesiastical tributes, and seem to have closely resembled the ""termonn"" lands of the early Irish Church. Abthain Abthain (or ""abthane"") is an English or Lowland Scots form of the middle-Latin word ""abthania"" (Gaelic ""abdhaine""), meaning abbacy. The exact sense of the word being lost, it was presumed to denote some ancient dignity, the holder of which was called abthanus or abthane. William Forbes Skene holds that the correct meaning of"
"is derived from the Chilean name and thus indirectly from the Irish one. Ballynary Ballynary () is the name of a townland on the eastern shore of Lough Arrow in the southern corner of County Sligo in Ireland. Ballynary was the ancestral seat of the O'Higgins family (or Ó hUiginn in Gaelic) for 700 years, until they were forced off their lands in 1654 by Oliver Cromwell. The Chief of the O'Higgins Clan today uses the courtesy title of ""The O'Higgins of Ballynary"" or ""Lord of Ballynary"" although his family have not lived there since the 17th century. The townland"
"Northern Ireland, in the early 18th century after obtaining a land grant from the Governor of Massachusetts. Later Cochranes would arrive from Scotland and England. ""Virtute et labore"", a Latin phrase meaning ""by valour and exertion"". Cochrane (surname) Cochrane is a surname with multiple independent origins, two Scottish and one Irish. One of the Scottish names derives from a place in Scotland; the Irish surname and the other Scottish surname are both anglicisations of Gaelic language surnames. The name ""Cochrane"" originates from a habitational name derived from the ""Lowlands of Cochrane"", near Paisley in Renfrewshire. The derivation of the place"
"guide: /Glos gov-nan/. Original (phonetic) transcription: ""Glas Gaivlen""; alternate spellings: ""Gloss Gavlen"": (pronunciation guide:/glas-gav-e-lan/). Additional spellings: Glas Gaibhneach, Glas Gamhain, Glas Gamhnach. O'Donovan thought the second part of the name was a corruption of the possessive case of Goibniu ""the smith"", as Goibniu is Old Irish, pronounced ˈɡovʲnʲu or Gaibhne (Modern Irish). But the bovine creature's Irish name can literally be broken down to ""glas"" ""green, gray, etc."" and ""gamuin"" ""calf, yearling"", as have been indicated by the Rev. Patrick Power, church historian and writer on topographical names. Lady Gregory's reworked version can be summarised as follows: Balor of the"
"abbot of Scrin Adamnain, died in 1022 AD. Gallchobhar was the one given the role of founding father of the clan at the advent of widespread surname usage in Ireland, which began around the 10th century. As with the modern Irish surname Ó Conchúir, frequently anglicized as O'Conor, Ó Gallchóir similarly appears to be a conjoined/compound word and shares in common with O'Connor, the same suffix. With O'Conner likewise starting out in the original Irish as Conchobhar/Conchubhar(Con-chobhar meaning ""lover of canines""). The original Irish spelling, Ó Gallchobhar, draws from this same compound naming convention. It is the most common surname"
"Irish National Land League The Irish National Land League (Irish: ""Conradh na Talún"") was an Irish political organisation of the late 19th century which sought to help poor tenant farmers. Its primary aim was to abolish landlordism in Ireland and enable tenant farmers to own the land they worked on. The period of the Land League's agitation is known as the Land War. Historian R. F. Foster argues that in the countryside the Land League ""reinforced the politicization of rural Catholic nationalist Ireland, partly by defining that identity against urbanization, landlordism, Englishness and—implicitly—Protestantism."" Foster adds that about a third of"
"Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin Amhlaoibh Ó Súilleabháin (May 1780 – 1838) was an Irish language author, linen draper, politician, and one-time hedge school master. He is also known as Humphrey O'Sullivan. He was deeply involved in Daniel O'Connell's Catholic Emancipation movement and in relief work among the poor of County Kilkenny. He was also an avid bird watcher and a collector of manuscripts in the Irish language. His diary, published later as Cín Lae Amhlaoibh, was kept between 1827 and 1835. It remains one of the most important sources for 19th-century Irish life and one of the few surviving works from"
"diminutive of ""Seán"", thus literally 'Little John', and apparently a reference to John Bull) was applied to those who emulated the homes, habits, lifestyle, pastimes, clothes, and zeitgeist of the Protestant Ascendancy. P. W. Joyce's ""English As We Speak It in Ireland"" defines it as ""a gentleman in a small way: a would-be gentleman who puts on superior airs."" A variant since c. 1840, ""jackeen"" ('Little Jack'), was used in the countryside in reference to Dubliners with British sympathies; it is a pun, substituting the nickname ""Jack"" for ""John"", as a reference to the Union Jack, the British flag. In"
"(sheaf), found in the Scots term ""garbal teind"" (tenth sheaf), a tithe of corn given to a parish rector. The taking of ""garbal teind"" was a right given to George Elphinstone in 1616 as part of his 19-year ""tack"" (lease). The placename would therefore mean ""the Sheaves"". The name is similar to a Lowland Scots word ""gorbal/gorbel/garbal/garbel"" (unfledged bird), perhaps a reference to lepers who were allowed to beg for alms in public. ""Gort a' bhaile"" (garden of the town) conforms with certain suggestions made by A.G. Callant in 1888, but other interpretations are also popular. In the 19th and"
"The surname Ó Cianáin is now generally rendered as Keenan. Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin Cú Chonnacht Ó Cianáin, d. 1615, was a rymer or chronicler to Rory Maguire. He was apparently the first man racked in Ireland, the instrument being used most severely upon him during an interrogation into a bungled insurrection in early summer 1615. On 31 July of that year, he and five others were condemned to death in Derry, and he is believed to have been hanged shortly afterwards. He is also described as a yeoman of Moygh, a place somewhere between Ballymoney and the Bann, County"
"to the parties of the third part in trust."" In the 1901 census of Ireland, there was one family listed in the townland. In the 1911 census of Ireland, there was one family listed in the townland. Disert, Tullyhunco Disert (Irish derived place name, Diseart meaning 'The Hermitage'.) is a townland in the civil parish of Kildallan, barony of Tullyhunco, County Cavan, Ireland. Disert is bounded on the north by Coolnashinny townland, on the west by Aghabane, Derrindrehid and Killygowan townlands, on the south by Bawn townland and on the east by Killytawny townland. Its chief geographical features are Aghabane"
"the land in Ireland to heave toward the sky. The University of Wales' reconstructed Proto-Celtic lexicon gives *""Φīwerjon-"" (nominative singular ""Φīwerjō"") as the Proto-Celtic etymology of this name. This Celtic form implies Proto-Indo-European ""*piHwerjon-"", likely related to the adjectival stem ""*piHwer-"" ""fat"" (cf. Sanskrit ""pīvan"", f. ""pīvarī"" and by-form ""pīvara"", ""fat, full, abounding"") hence meaning ""fat land"" or ""land of abundance"", applied at an early date to the island of Ireland. The Proto-Celtic form became ""*īweriū"" in Q-Celtic (Proto-Goidelic). From a similar or somewhat later form were also borrowed Greek ""I[w]ernē"" and ""Iouernia""; the latter form was converted into Latin"
"Keenan Keenan (Cianán) is a male Irish name which means ""ancient, distant"". ""Keenan"" is an Anglicisation of the Irish name ""Cianán"" which is a diminutive of ""Cian"". The Ó Cianáin clan (Keenan) were the traditional historians to the McGuire clan. Recorded as O'Keenan and more usually Keenan, this is an Irish surname. Found mainly in the Ulster and northern counties of Fermanagh and Monaghan, it originates from the ancient pre 10th century Gaelic name O' Cianain meaning ""The descendant of the faithful one"" or similar. It may not have been entirely coincidence that the clan was famous throughout the Medieval"