Louth History and Society is the thirtieth volume in the History and Society series.

Contents

Foreword by Paul Gosling

Chapter 1 The prehistory of County Louth by Gabriel Cooney

Chapter 2 The Early Saints of County Louth by Anthony Cronin

Chapter 3 The Archaeology of Early Medieval Louth AD 400-1100 by Donald Murphy

Chapter 4 The Vikings and County Louth by Eamonn P. Kelly

Chapter 5 Castle Roche and the de Verdons by Micheál Mc Keown

Chapter 6 Anglo-Norman Rural Settlement in County Louth 1189-1350 – A geographical analysis by Héléne Bradley Davies

Chapter 7 Colonial Society in Co. Louth, 1150-1450 by Brendan Smith

Chapter 8 Mellifont Abbey: Architecture and History by Roger Stalley

Chapter 9 The church in late medieval County Louth by Henry A. Jefferies

Chapter 10 Aspects of Monumental Heraldry in the Drogheda area by Séamus Bellew

Chapter 11 The Historiography of the Cromwellian Siege of Drogheda, 1649 by James Scott Wheeler

Chapter 12 The 1641 Rebellion in County Louth by Annaleigh Margey

Chapter 13 Writing in Irish in County Louth during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods by Peadar Mac Gabhann

Chapter 14 Protestants and Catholics in County Louth c.1600-1911: an essay in religious and political demography by Kerby A. Miller

Chapter 15 Writing in Irish in Louth: from the Cromwellian Settlement until the aftermath of the Great Famine by Peadar Mac Gabhann

Chapter 16 Sir Patrick Bellew’s Barmeath Estate in the 1770s by Jean Young

Chapter 17 Literary activism in Oirghialla from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: poets and scribes by Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh

Chapter 18 Two hundred years of linen mills on the Flurry River, Ravensdale, North Louth by Don Johnston

Chapter 19 Domestic architecture in eighteenth century Drogheda by Aisling Durkan

Chapter 20 The Minute Books of Ardee Corporation 1661-1841 by Kevin McKenny

Chapter 21 The Built Environment of Drogheda, 1800-1850: contrasting townscapes by Ned McHugh

Chapter 22 Divergent Fortunes of Five Big Houses in County Louth by Conor Kenny

Chapter 23 Local Government in County Louth (1233-2022) by Matthew Potter

Chapter 24 Nineteenth Century Education in the Drogheda Area: A Family Case Study by John McCullen

Chapter 25 Fr James Augustine Anderson, 1838-1903 by Iggy O’Donovan

Chapter 26 Building the Railway Town: The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) at Dundalk by Siobhan Osgood

Chapter 27 Traditional Music in County Louth by Nicholas Carolan

Chapter 28 The struggle for political legitimacy 1917-1938 by Donal Hall

Chapter 29 ‘Forthright and Free’: Some traditions from Annie Lynch of County Louth by Ríonach Uí Ógáin

Chapter 30 Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama and Literature from County Louth by Fiona Fearon

Chapter 31 A rural geography of County Louth (John Arwel Edwards, 1965) by William Nolan

Chapter 32 Dáil Éireann elections in Louth, 1969-2020 by Caoilfhionn D’Arcy and Jim D’Arcy

Chapter 33 Louth’s Archives by Lorraine McCann