JOURNAL OF THE OLD DROGHEDA SOCIETY
For Aspects of the History of Drogheda, another series by the Society, see below.
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1976 |
Number 1 |
An eighteen century description of Drogheda |
Mary Delaney |
Some musical antiquities of Drogheda |
Sean O'Sullivan |
Forty years ago [see also Journal 12] |
Mary Hurley |
Some Drogheda wells |
Anne Crilly |
Si monumentum requiris, circumspice [The almshouses of St Peter's Place] |
Sean O'Sullivan |
The "1722" Bridge |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Lays of the last minstrels |
E A B |
Education in Drogheda through the ages |
Mary Malone |
Drogheda Harp Society |
Patrick L Cooney
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1977 |
Number 2 |
The civic guards arrive in Drogheda |
James Garry |
Drogheda's markets and fairs |
Ann Crilly |
Drogheda's mace and sword |
Peggy O'Reilly |
In our museum |
Harry Fairtlough |
The streets and lanes of Drogheda, Part 1 - medieval |
Moira Corcoran |
Inscriptions on stones in Stagreenan Graveyard [outside Drogheda on road to Mornington] |
James Garry |
Random recollections of the Drogheda Rowing Club |
James Garry |
Grendon's Foundary [1835 - 1970] |
James Garry
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1979 |
Number 3 |
The Drogheda election of 1868 |
Vy rev Fr Gerard Rice |
Funeral of the illfated James Woods [obit November 1868 during an election] |
James Garry |
In our museum: the [trade] Banner Room |
Harry Fairtlough & Jackie Rooney |
The Streets and Lanes of Drogheda: Part 2 |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Symbolism of the Cross [the Medical Missionaries of Mary and the Penal Cross] |
Sister M Monica Clarke, MMM |
A seventeenth century description of Drogheda |
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Some extracts from the minute book of the Drogheda Union Board of Guardians [see also McDonough Journal 12]
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James Garry |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1983 |
Number 4 |
The Fenians in Drogheda |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
The coins and tokens of Drogheda |
Vy Rev Fr Gerard Rice |
Jarvies of Drogheda |
James Garry |
Tombstone inscriptions from Beaulieu |
James Garry |
Drogheda's refuse problems [1656 -1707] |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Beechgrove House |
Sr M Monica Clarke, MMM |
Hugh Bolter, Archbishop of Armagh |
Sean O'Sullivan |
Town's early 'phone system |
A J Litton, BE BSc |
The Elcocks of Drogheda |
John McCullen |
Drummer William Kenny, Victoria Cross |
James Garry |
In honoured memory of [those who died in World War 1]
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James Garry |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1986
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Number 5 |
Fairtlough appreciations |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI & James Garry |
The boy from Termonfeckin [John Dolan] |
John McCullen |
Some medieaval tiles from Drogheda |
Kieran Campbell |
Drogheda Merchants of the 18th. Century |
Dr John Fitzgerald |
The cholera epidemic of 1832 |
Maureen Wilson |
Drogheda motor vehicles 1903 - 1916 |
Michael Ward |
The 8th. Field Battery, Volunteer Force |
Capt Peter Durnin, KSG, KM, KC*HS |
Drogheda Jail during the period of the Famine |
Ned McHugh |
A note on Sandpit Church |
Dr. Christine Casey |
Drogheda Folklore |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Drogheda and the Fairtlough Family |
Dr Aideen M Ireland |
Graveyard inscriptions in St. Marys Church of Ireland, Drogheda |
James Garry |
The Boyne Coracle in our Museum |
Breeda Tuite |
The dresser in our museum |
James Garry |
The Drogheda Quilt in our Museum
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Mary McDonnell |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1989 |
Number 6 |
The Boyne Viaduct |
Kevin Murray |
Constructing the Bridge |
James Garry |
Out the Beamore Road |
John McCullen |
The Whitworths and Drogheda in the 19th Century |
Jane Renfrew |
The Railway to the Quays by Gerard |
John Owens |
Notes on Drogheda Union Workhouses |
Michael O. McDonough and Mary McD. Malone |
Caldwell Estate |
Aideen M. Ireland |
Mornington Alias Marinerstown |
Michael Ward |
Mornington Inscriptions |
James Garry |
Parliamentary Registration 1852 Rated Occupiers |
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Drogheda Development Association Ltd - 1905-1908 |
Sean Collins |
The "Ham and Egg" Brigade |
Sean Collins |
In our Museum - Medieval Drogheda |
Moira Corcoran |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1990 |
Number 7 |
Night of the Big Wind: 6 January, 1838 |
Michael O McDonough |
Drogheda's Timbered Houses |
Moira Corcoran MA FRSAI |
Sources for Local history in the Drogheda area |
Hugh Comerford |
Cairnes of Stameen |
John McCullen |
Drogheda Parliamentary elections of 1835 |
Ned McHugh |
Account Books of the Brick and Stonelayers Society 1887-1889 |
James Garry |
Battle of the Boyne 1690 |
Breeda Tuite |
The Titchbourne acquisition of the Plunkett estate of Beaulieu |
Dr Harold O'Sullivan |
The end of an era - landlordism in the 19th. Century [the Foster Estate in Collon Co Louth] |
Niamh Fairtlough |
A Drogheda glossary |
James Garry |
Random Jewish settlements in Drogheda |
Cllr. Sean Collins, MA |
The Boyne hunt |
Desmond Chaloner |
The Presentation foundation in Drogheda |
Sr. M Oliver Allen |
Schools and Schoolmaster |
Michael Ward
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1992 |
No 8 |
Lifeboats on the Boyne: 1856-1926 |
Patsy McKenna |
When the walls came tumbling down |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Papal awards in the Drogheda area |
Capt Peter F Durnin, KSG, KM, KC*HS |
Meath maps in the National Library |
Maeve Reilly |
St Peter's church of Ireland, Drogheda, gravestones inscriptions |
James Garry |
Fr. Thomas Gogarty: 1877-1949 |
Donald Murphy |
Fanlights of Fair Street |
Jim Kelly |
Sienna Convent: the Portugese connection |
James Kirwan |
Events of Easter 1916 in Drogheda |
John McCullen |
The Land League in Drogheda 1880-1881 |
Michael Ward |
Presentation School infant boys roll book: 1859-1870 |
Christy Quigley |
List of members of the Old Drogheda Society |
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1994 |
No 9 |
800 years of Drogheda |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
P J Dodd of Drogheda: Architect and Civil Engineer |
P J Geraghty, Bsc, DIS |
Criminal offences, compensation and breaches of the Truce in Drogheda in 1920-1921 |
Dr Martin Thornton |
Limekilns and lime usage |
Michael Ward |
The Drogheda Steampacket Company |
John McCullen |
Drogheda: the racehorse |
Damien Somerville |
Presentation School girl boys roll book: 1822-1839 |
Christy Quigley |
The Victor Clarke Geological Collection in Millmount Museum |
Prof. Frank Mitchell |
Some minutes from times past |
Tom Reilly |
Under the hill of Donore |
Seamus Matthews |
The Donore Inscriptions |
James Garry |
List of members of the Old Drogheda Society |
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1996 |
No 10 |
Our cover: the Drogheda 800 stamp |
Cllr Sean Collins, MA |
John Boyle O'Reilly and Irish adjustment in America |
Dr David Doyle |
A visit to Arus an Uachtaran 4th. November 1994 |
Anne Bradley |
Owners, Masters and Crews of some Drogheda ships: 1863-1873 |
James Garry |
Lt James Samuel Emerson, Victoria Cross |
Patsy McKenna |
Drogheda men who went to war |
Florrie Murray and Colin Boylan |
The Big Wind |
Maureen Perkins |
Tudor Drogheda 1534-1603 |
Susan O'Connor |
Nanny Water Coastguard |
Michael Ward |
"We all had of course a wonderful time in Drogheda", Drogheda and Denmark in World War 11 |
Capt Peter Durnin, KSG, KM, KC*HS |
Presentation School girl boys roll book: 1822-1839 [Part 11] |
Christy Quigley |
Highlights of a generation |
John McCullen
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Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 1998 |
No 11 |
Recent archaelogical discoveries in Drogheda |
Deirdre Murphy |
A Drogheda steamship: The Irishman |
J Colin Bain |
Drogheda seamen: 1880-1940 |
Christy Quigley |
John Boyle O'Reilly: the early years |
Seamus Matthews |
Dowth churchyard memorial inscriptions |
Dr Patrick J Shorthall |
The Elcock-Netterville lease |
Lucy McCullen |
The pub at Duleek gate |
John McCullen |
Drogheda Municipal Art Gallery |
Peter Jordan |
The origin and development of two Meath villages |
Michael Ward |
Problems of the tenant farmer during the Famine years |
Eileen McCullough |
Some notes on the Drogheda families of Carroll, Clinton, McGovern and Skelly |
Gerald Conan Kennedy |
James Anderson and the Drogheda pilgrimage to Knock: 1880 |
Rev Fr Iggy O'Donovan, osa |
"Drogheda the place for me" song |
Evelyn Kirwan |
"Drogheda" poem |
Donald Byrne |
Drogheda forty shilling freeholders |
Moira Corcoran, MA, FRSAI |
Letter from Bill English, 1966 |
James Garry |
Authors and their contributions to the Journal: 1976-1996
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James Garry |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 2000 |
Number 12 |
"A day of joy and Pride", a history of the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes |
Capt. Peter Durnin, KSG, KM, KC*HS |
The Minto's of Drogheda |
Frank Minto |
Mise agus Feis na Boinne |
Seamus Matthews |
Memories of Drogheda in the Forties |
Paddy Lynch |
Presentation School Girls Roll Book, 1840 - 1850 |
Christy Quigley |
After the Battle of the Boyne: Some Irish Dutch connections |
James Kirwan |
World War 1 Service List: St Peter's Church of Ireland |
Lynn McDonnell |
A child growing up in Millmount Martello |
Breeden McGlynn |
Drogheda and the British General strike |
Eugene Kernan |
The [newfound]Well Road |
Frank Gallagher |
[The townland of ]Bryanstown - changed utterly! |
John McCullen |
Drogheda Poor Law guardians 1839-1924 |
George McDonough |
"The street corners of Drogheda" |
Tom Winters |
Fr Patrick McCabe 1822 -1899 Minnesota and John Boyle O'Reilly |
Peggy O'Reilly
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Franciscan Order leave Drogheda after 755 years |
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Scouting in Drogheda 1935 - 2000 |
Pat Hanratty |
44 years a singing [a history of St Peters Male Voice Choir] |
Owen Rafferty |
Pillboxes on the Boyne [1939 - 1945] |
Dr Geraldine Stout and Michael Reilly |
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: 2001 |
Number 13 |
Drogheda's early Trade Unions Frank Gallagher
Dance of Death: Cadaver stones Eileen McCullough
Moorechurch cemetery inscriptions, Co Meath Margaret Hughes
Dyer Street and its environs Moira Corcoran and James Garry
Gravestones at Monknewton, Co Meath Michael Reilly
The Matthews Family Seamus Matthews
The Creaser and Eagar Families James F Todd
Dead Meat Society John McCullen
The Painters of Drogheda and Co Louth Charles Callan
The Gaelic League in Drogheda Sean O Greagoir
Widows of the Invaders Gillian Kenny, MA
Crossing the Border in the Fifties Pat Hanratty
An Oige in Mellifont, Co Louth
A tragic death: John Mullen and the Tredagh
Cycling Club Dermot Faitlough
Journal of the Old Drogheda Society: No. 14 year 2004
Drogheda Emigrants returns on holidays Pat Judge
An Réalt Jim Garry
Beamore races John McCullen
The milkmen and Dairies of Drogheda District Tom Winters
End of an era: the Big Fair Day Ted Greene
West Street in 1953 Jim Garry
Patrick Fulham, MP, of Donore & Meath Election of 1892 Seamus Matthews
St. Mary’s Villas Lilian Little
Drogheda Man [Judge Thomas Roe] attempts to influence Tory
Policy Kieran McGovern
Drogheda’s Fire Service Patsy McKenna
Old Drogheda meeting a new state Frank Gallagher
Members of Drogheda Corporation 1876-1898 Peter Durnin
William Fluker – Boathouse Keeper, Drogheda Rowing Club Local Voices
Directory of Authorities, Unions, Firms etc in Drogheda Mr. Schultz
Notable personalities in St. Peter’s Cemetery Peter Durnin
Presbyterianism in Drogheda Bill McIlreavy
Drogheda Citizens and their occupations in 1830 Patsy McKenna
Surrender at Millmount 1922 Garry Owens
Pictures from the Societies archives
Paddy Matthews: an appreciation John Gregory
Aspects of the History of Drogheda
contact point: Peter Durnin at: peter_durnin@odce.ie