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The Bennington Evening Banner
Bennington, Bennington County, Vermont
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In west Ireland, children of United Irish League members, amid an anti-grazing boycott campaign, threaten to close national schools to exclude children of boycotted landowners. Sixty pupils near Boyle, County Roscommon, walked out when teachers refused to dismiss four such children. Reported from Dublin on Feb. 1.
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DUBLIN. Feb. 1.-The children of members of the United Irish League in the west of Ireland, who are carrying on an antigrazing campaign, are rapidly becoming infected with a violent form of the boycotting fever and are threatening to close up the national schools if the children of the hated occupants of grazing lands are permitted to attend the schools. As an earnest of their determination to do this sixty pupils attending a national school near Boyle, County Roscommon, walked out in a body because the teachers refused to dismiss four small sons and daughters of men who have been boycotted.
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Primary Location
Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland
Event Date
Feb. 1
Outcome
sixty pupils walked out of school in protest.
Event Details
Children of United Irish League members in west Ireland, engaged in an anti-grazing campaign, are boycotting schools by threatening to close them if children of boycotted grazing land occupants attend. As a demonstration, sixty pupils near Boyle, County Roscommon, left school because teachers would not dismiss four children of boycotted men.