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  1. Irish peasant-rights organization, formed by
  2. Michael Davitt and Charles Parnell 1879 to
  3. fight against tenant evictions. Through its
  4. skilful use of the boycott against anyone who
  5. took a farm from which another had been
  6. evicted, it forced Gladstone's government to
  7. introduce a law 1881 restricting rents and
  8. granting tenants security of tenure.
  9.