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dc.contributor.creatorButler, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-20T11:44:32Z
dc.date.available2021-04-20T11:44:32Z
dc.date.issued2015-02-11
dc.identifier.citationButler, R. (2015) '“The radicals in these reform times”: politics, grand juries and Ireland’s unbuilt assize courthouses, 1800-45', Architectural History, 58, 109-39.en_US
dc.identifier.issn0066622X
dc.identifier.urihttps://dspace.mic.ul.ie/handle/10395/2990
dc.description.abstractIt is the aim, in this article, to identify the reasons why certain designs for courthouses in early-nineteenth-century Ireland remained unexecuted, and to do so by analysing surviving drawings and placing them in the political context at this time of Irish local government and of the efforts of Westminster politicians to institute reform. The funding and erection of courthouses were managed by grand juries, an archaic form of local government which gave few rights to smaller taxpayers and was widely perceived as an unaccountable institution associated with the ancien régime. In addition to hosting court sittings, courthouses were used by these grand juries for their private meetings and functions. By exploring the agendas and pretensions of these bodies, and by looking at the fluctuating availability of funding sources that were needed to initiate building work, I will argue through a series of Irish case studies that a renewed focus on elite patronage and its associated politics allows a new insight into courthouse building, which places less emphasis than is often the case on, for example, the role played by the changing legal profession in the architectural development of the courthouse.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherCambridge University Pressen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries58;
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dc.rights.urihttps://www.cambridge.org/en_US
dc.subjectIrish historyen_US
dc.subjectArchitectural historyen_US
dc.subjectCourthousesen_US
dc.subjectPolitical historyen_US
dc.subjectUrban historyen_US
dc.title“The radicals in these reform times”: politics, grand juries and Ireland’s unbuilt assize courthouses, 1800-45 (Pre published)en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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dc.description.versionYesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/S0066622X00002604


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