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Item type: Item , The foundation documents of Pocklington School, Yorkshire, 1514-2014 (Pre published)(Esson Print, 2014) Butler, RichardThis volume contains translations of the foundation documents for Pocklington School, Yorkshire, to mark its 500th anniversary in 2014. It also features a brief introduction to the history of education in Ireland and a history of Pocklington School between its foundation and 2014.Item type: Item , All Saints, Drimoleague, and Catholic visual culture under Bishop Cornelius Lucey in Cork, 1952-9 (Pre published)(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2015) Butler, RichardAll Saints, Drimoleague, designed by Cork architect Frank Murphy and built in 1954-6, was the first church built in a modernist architectural style in the Cork and Ross diocese since Christ the King, Turner’s Cross, in the 1920s. It contains a very unusual mural on the sanctuary wall and a distinguished series of stained glass windows by Harry Clarke Studios. This article sets out a framework for the study of the ten new churches that Bishop Cornelius Lucey oversaw during his first years in charge of the diocese of Cork and Ross. It argues that one of them, All Saints, Drimoleague, is a building of national importance and it places its artwork within the broader context of Catholic politics and social teaching in the diocese in the years before Vatican II.Item type: Item , All Saints, Drimoleague: clarifications and new discoveries (Pre published)(Cork Historical & Archaeological Society, 2016) Butler, RichardSince the publication of my article on Catholic visual culture in Cork in the 1950s in last year’s journal, some new material has come to my attention that allows for both some clarifications as well as some new insights. Following Peter Harbison, I speculated that the artist of the altar mural may have been the Austrian Hans Schröder (1931-2010), and that it must have been painted ‘between June 1956 and early 1957’. It is now possible to say with a great degree of certainty that the artist was in fact a different man, Hans V. Schroetter (1891-1965), of Graz, Austria, and that he worked in Drimoleague between June and December 1956.Item type: Item , St. Finbarr’s Catholic Church, Bantry: a history (Pre published)(Bantry Historical Society, 2017-12-11) Butler, RichardSt. Finbarr’s Catholic Church in Bantry has a long and rich history, and is widely regarded as one of the most important buildings in the town and surrounding area. It has recently undergone an extensive refurbishment, including the complete reconstruction of its historic pipe organ, the installation of a new floor and the repointing of much of the exterior stonework. Within the next decade will be the bicentenary of its construction. The purpose of this article is to offer a history of the church over the past two centuries, with particular focus on developments in the twentieth century. I will also comment on the church’s earlier history, about which there is some degree of uncertainty.Item type: Item , The history of Bagenalstown courthouse, Co. Carlow (Pre published)(Carlow Historical and Archaeological Society, 2014-09-11) Butler, RichardThis short article offers an architectural history of the courthouse in Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow, built in the 1820s.Item type: Item , “A scene of shameful disorder and dissipation”: alcohol, music, animals, and vegetables in early nineteenth-century Irish prisons (Pre published)(History Ireland, 2019-08-26) Butler, RichardJames Palmer and Benjamin Woodward, the state’s prison inspectors in early nineteenth-century Ireland, faced a monumental challenge: all around the country in big county gaols and in small bridewells, prison governors and wardens were a law onto their own. Affairs were managed on a county-by-county basis, the running of a prison often passed from father to son, and new laws and ideas about prison reform coming from Dublin and London were, in general, quietly ignored. The annual reports of the Irish prison inspectors make for a sorry indictment of cans kicked down the road, suggestions not taken on board, and appeals to the local landlords on county grand juries to take the running of their prisons a little more seriously.Item type: Item , Bantry Library, Co. Cork, 1962-74 (Pre published)(History Ireland, 2012-08-22) Butler, RichardSet amidst the small market town of Bantry, near the site of a former mill and surrounded by one of the spate rivers which drain from the Knocknaveagh range to the south, is one of Ireland’s most unusual examples of Modernist architecture. Bantry Library was designed in 1962 by the Cork County Council architect Patrick McSweeney and the project was developed and overseen by his assistant Harry Wallace. The design is said to have been conceived when McSweeney and his daughter were recovering from the flu, and to pass the time he made a model of a library building. His excitement with this design led him to present the model to a Convention of Librarians in Dublin, where it was enthusiastically received.