The threatening letters of pre-Famine Ireland

It has long been known that the anonymous or threatening letter played a significant role in pre-Famine Ireland.

Some such texts have previously been available to the general reader, spread through a variety of works on the period.

This book makes available the actual texts of over five hundred such letters, dating from the 1801 -45 period, together with an introduction which sets out in some detail the concepts involved.

The material has been taken in the main from the huge bulk of correspondence and reports which found its way to Dublin Castle from all over the Irish countryside, but is also supplemented by newspaper reports and the evidence produced before various parliamentary enquiries.