Book Review: The Old English in Early Modern Ireland: the Palesmen and the Nine Years’ War 1594–1603 by Ruth A. Canning

Abstract

with consequent effects on how prisons were constructed, until the idea of the ‘separate’ and ‘silent’ system began to win favour in the 1830s, again with implications for how Irish prisons were built or modified. Butler’s insightful handling of the course of Irish county courthouse and county gaol construction from 1750 to 1850 is supported by over 300 illustrations, many of them copies of sumptuous paintings and architects’ plans, and numerous colour and black-and-white photographs.