Gothic

About Gothic

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 Charleville Castle; and Lawrence Parsons, later 2nd earl of Rosse, who re-imagined seventeenth-century Parsonstown House as early nineteenth-century Birr Castle. Architecturally the castles belong to Georgian Gothic, a style that in Britain is overshadowed by later nineteenth-century Gothic and is largely overlooked in Ireland. In this fascinating new book Judith Hill investigates Georgian Gothic in its…

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