Blue Flower

Contents

Articles in the Journal:

The Kingdom of Brega in the Seventh Century by Anthony Cronin

Excommunication at a Meath threshing by Brian McCabe

Two Poems by William Nugent by Pádraig Ó Macháin

Duleeks Later Urban Development by Noel French

Some salved Irish Chancery Pleadings by Brian Nugent

Archbishop John Bramhall and Church lands in Athboy, 1641 - 1663 by Bríd McGrath

The Bligh family of Brittas, Nobber, Co. Meath, C. 1650 - 1990 by Henry Cruise

The Westmeath transportations file by Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin

Richard Plunket (fl. 1772 - 1791): 'A neglected genius of the county of Meath' by Richard Sharpe

St Finian's College, Navan and Mullingar by Christopher F. McCormack

Westmeath News from Buenos Aires as reported in The Standard and River Plate News by Edward Walsh

'Sorts of FORREST TREES and FLOWERING SHRUBS' - Nursery catalogues in the Fingall Papers by Mary Forrest

John Sweetman and Home Rule, 1885 - 1891 by Brian Casey

Everyday Life in Meath in 1916 by Danny Cusack

The provincial press and the Irish Revolution: the case of Co. Westmeath by Michael Nolan

How did 1916 influence the rise of republicanism in Meath between 1917 and 1921? (Part 2) by Ultan Courtney

Michael Collins and the Cormeen Murder Case, 1920 by John F Cogan

and various book reviews, etc.