Gothic: Building Castles in post-Union Ireland

Castles speak. Especially in an age when they are no longer necessary. The act of union of 1800, which brought Ireland into closer association with Britain, challenged the status of Irish landed proprietors, and not a few responded by building castles. In Gothic: Building castles in post-Union Ireland Judith Hill explores the projects of two Irish proprietors: the Burys, later Lord and Lady Charleville who commissioned Francis Johnston, then Ireland’ s most important architect, to design Ch...