SPIES and informers in Ireland have been a pretty endemic species over the centuries of colonial rule. It was not only in Ireland that England employed agents to spy on the activities of the Irish. During the Napoleonic period in Paris, England’s spymaster, William Wickham (1761-1840) was spending a huge amount on his Parisian spy-network checking the Irish exiles there.

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