Contents

New Archaeological Sites for County Meath by Denis Shine, Richard Clutterbuck, Matthew Seaver, Joanne Gaffrey, Mandy Stephens, Stuart Elder, Brendan Fagan & Ed Lyne

‘The Blackfriary Button’ by Finola O’Carroll, Denis Shine, Mark McConnon & Laura Corrway

The elements TOWN (and BAILE) in the place-names of Lower Duleek/Damh Liag Iochtarach from the 13th to the 17th Century by Úna Lawlor

Drogheda Grammar School by Christopher McCormack

Poverty in the midst of affluence in the nineteenth century County Meath civil parishes of Clongill and Kilberry by James Caffrey

Broken Silence: Peadar Gallegan and a poem of the Great Famine by Danny Cusack

Owen Smith – A vital link with the ancient learning and history of North Meath by Arthur Russell

Reflections on the Decade of Commemoration by Mary Ann Lyons

Remembering Irish Civilian Mobilisation during the First World War by Clare O’Neill

The Great War: Irish Australian Perspectives by Danny Cusack

Glimpses of Life in Navan during the Great War 1914–18 by Ethna Cantwell

From Bellewstown to the Battlefields of World War One by Fiona Ahern

Meath and the 1916 Rising by Noel French

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

Shot While Evading Arrest in Stonefield – the Tragic Fate of Patrick McDonnell, March 1921 by John F Cogan