Local history enthusiasts will be delighted to read that the Louth History and Society - Book Edited by William Nolan (Emeritus Professor, U.C.D.) will receive its Drogheda Launch on Thursday 30th November 2023 at 7:30pm in the Boyne Valley Hotel.

This single volume which stretches to 900 pages in 33 chapters of interdisciplinary essays and includes a foreword on the history of County Louth as well an index, will be launched by Gabriel Cooney (Emeritus Professor, U.C.D.).

Master of Ceremonies on the night will be John McCullen, other speakers will include Jean Young, President of the Society, Nicholas Carolan and Ned McHugh.

The wide-ranging topics tackled in this book (authors and titles) include:

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 aftermath of 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 - Sir Patrick Bellew’s Barmeath Estate in the 1770s 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