Description
| Product ID: | 9781847173454 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Boycott |
| Authors: | Author: Colin Murphy |
| Page Count: | 576 |
| Subjects: | Historical fiction, Historical fiction |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Boycott – a word whose meaning is known the world over. But it once belonged to a man. Two brothers, Owen and Thomas Joyce take conflicting stands in the struggle with injustice in a country striven by the Land War. Thomas and Eoin Joyce lose their family to The Great Hunger, Ireland''s potato famine which cost the country half its population: desperate times lead to desperate acts and they flee the country. Now, thirty years later, the crops are failing again. The Joyces join a growing band of natives determined to change things and they focus their efforts on Charles Boycott, agent for an absentee landlord and renowned for this arrogant and dismissive attitude to the locals. New times call for new methods leading to one of the seminal events of Irish history. |
| Imprint Name: | Brandon |
| Publisher Name: | O'Brien Press Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2012-10-22 |
