Louth: History & Society

Louth: History & Society  ----  Book Launches

 The single volume of 900 pages consists of 33 Chapters (interdisciplinary essays) + Foreword on the history of Co. Louth as well an index. 

 

·          It is published by Geography Publications based in Dublin and the editor is Professor Willie Nolan, Emeritus Professor at U.C.D.

The Book is available from Geography Publications

 Tel: 01-4566085                                           email: books@geographypublications.com

 ¨  The book is also be available from Roe River Bookshop, Clanbrassil Street (new Location) in Dundalk.

¨  The book is also be available from Waterstones in Scotch Hall, Drogheda

¨  The book of 850 pages retails at €60

 In the following Link, Prof Nolan on the Myles Dungan History Programme describes the series of County Volumes, where he concludes on the Louth Volume.

https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22298498/

·          This Publication has been supported by both Louth County Council and  County Louth Archaeological and Historical Society.

                        This volume is dedicated to the late Noel Ross.                                                                                

Dundalk Launch last week

Professor Terry Dooley launches the book in Dundalk

The book is available at Roe River Books, Clanbrassil Street (new location), Dundalk.

Louth: history and society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county 

Volume xxx in the series, edited by Prof. William Nolan (Emeritus Professor, U.C.D.)

 Foreword by Paul Gosling

 

Chapters (authors and titles)

 

1.         Gabriel Cooney          

                        The prehistory of County Louth

 

2.         Anthony Cronin

                        The Early Saints of County Louth

 

3.         Donald Murphy          

                        The Archaeology of Early Medieval Louth AD 400-1100

 

4.         Eamonn P. Kelly        

                        The Vikings and County Louth

 

5.         Micheál Mc Keown    

                        Castle Roche and the de Verdons

 

6.         Héléne Bradley Davies          

                        Anglo-Norman Rural Settlement in County Louth 1189-1350 –

                        A Geographical Analysis

 

7.         Brendan Smith

                        Colonial Society in Co. Louth, 1150-1450

 

8.         Roger Stalley

                        Mellifont Abbey: Architecture and History

 

9.         Henry A. Jefferies     

                        The church in late medieval County Louth

 

10.       Séamus Bellew

                        Aspects of Monumental Heraldry in the Drogheda area

 

11.       James Scott Wheeler

                        The Historiography of the Cromwellian Siege of Drogheda, 1649

 

12.       Annaleigh Margey      

                        The 1641 Rebellion in County Louth

 

13.       Peadar Mac Gabhann           

Writing in Irish in County Louth during the Medieval and Early Modern Periods

 

14.       Kerby A. Miller           

                        Protestants and Catholics in County Louth c.1600-1911:

                        an essay in religious and political demography

 

15.       Peadar Mac Gabhann

                        Writing in Irish in Louth:

                        from the Cromwellian Settlement until the aftermathof the Great Famine

 

16.       Jean Young

                        Sir Patrick Bellew’s Barmeath Estate in the 1770s

 

17.       Aoileann Ní Éigeartaigh

Literary activism in Oirghialla from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century: poets and scribes

 

18.       Don Johnston

Two hundred years of linen mills on the Flurry River, Ravensdale, North Louth

 

19.       Aisling Durkan

                        Domestic architecture in eighteenth century Drogheda

 

20.       Kevin McKenny

                        The Minute Books of Ardee Corporation 1661-1841

 

21.       Ned McHugh

                        The Built Environment of Drogheda, 1800-1850: Contrasting Townscapes

                       

22.       Conor Kenny

                        Divergent Fortunes of Five Big Houses in County Louth

                       

23.       Matthew Potter

                        Local Government in County Louth (1233-2022)

 

24.       John McCullen

Nineteenth Century Education in the Drogheda Area: A Family Case Study

                       

25.       Iggy O’Donovan         

                        Fr James Augustine Anderson, 1838-1903

                       

26.       Siobhan Osgood

Building the Railway Town: The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) at Dundalk

 

27.       Nicholas Carolan,      

                        Traditional Music in County Louth

 

28.       Donal Hall,                 

                        The struggle for political legitimacy 1917-1938

 

29.       Ríonach Uí Ógáin,

                        ‘Forthright and Free’: Some traditions from Annie Lynch of County Louth

 

30.       Fiona Fearon,

                        Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Drama and Literature from County Louth

 

31.       William Nolan,            

                        A rural geography of County Louth (John Arwel Edwards, 1965)

 

32.       Caoilfhionn D’Arcy and Jim D’Arcy

                        Dáil Éireann elections in Louth, 1969-2020

 

33.       Lorraine McCann       

                        Louth’s Archives

           

Press Coverage

Drogheda Launch

was held on Thursday 30th November 2023 @ 7:30pm

·  At the Boyne Valley Hotel, Dublin Road,     

                                           Drogheda  A92 EY89

· Launched by Gabriel Cooney, M.R.I.A.

                                Emeritus Professor (U.C.D.)

·  Master of Ceremonies: John McCullen,

Other speakers included Jean Young, President of the Society, Nicholas Carolan, Ned McHugh and Michelle Hall (former Mayor of Drogheda).

Seamus Bellew presented Teresa Nolan with an original copy of 'I send my Love around the Boyne' by Elizabeth Hickey with illustrations by Nano Reid, along with Beaubec by Geraldine Stout and Matt Stout and 2023 copy of Old Drogheda Society Journal.

Dundalk Launch

Thursday 23rd November 2023 @ 7:00pm

·  At County Hall, Dundalk                                    

· Launched by Professor Terry Dooley (Maynooth)

·  Master of Ceremonies: Michael Gaynor,

Other speakers included Jean Young, President of the Society, Don Johnston, Lorraine McCann (County Archivist), and Donal Hall.

Michael McKeown presented Willie Nolan with a painting he made of Roche Castle.