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'You will dye at midnight' : threatening letters in Victorian Ireland
- Title
- 'You will dye at midnight' : threatening letters in Victorian Ireland / Donal P. McCracken.
- Author
- McCracken, Donal P.
- Publication
- Dublin, Ireland : Eastwood, 2021.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 23-1995 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xvi, 257 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
- Contents
- Section I Delivering the mail -- 1. The phenomenon -- 2. Behind the threatening letter -- 3. The sign of death: Delivery, language and image -- 4. The Peaks and plains -- 5. The urban setting -- Section II Answering the mail -- 6. Landlords and land agents in the firing line -- 7. How the authorities responded to threatening letters -- 8. Response among nationalists -- 9. The lingering threatening-letter tradition.
- Call Number
- JFE 23-1995
- ISBN
- 9781913934163
- 1913934160
- 9781913934248 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2020415866
- OCLC
- 1268139191
- Author
- McCracken, Donal P., author.
- Title
- 'You will dye at midnight' : threatening letters in Victorian Ireland / Donal P. McCracken.
- Publisher
- Dublin, Ireland : Eastwood, 2021.
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-244) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1899
- Research Call Number
- JFE 23-1995