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This is the twenty forth volume in the acclaimed History and Society series.

This volume, in mobilising such a broad team of committed researchers, makes a major contribution to the restoration and enhancement of the heritage of Meath. Above all, it has the capacity to release the inspirational and creative resources of our heritage. As we embark upon the decade of commemorations, we recall that it was such a renewed cultural vision which energised those who forged modern Irish cultural identity and eventually established Irish sovereignty. For those leaders, like Eoghan O’Growney of Athboy, our heritage and tradition operated as a stimulus and an inspiration, rather than as a barrier. Now the scholarly and creative response to Meath’s rich legacy orchestrated in Meath History and Society helps realise for our own times that generous national vision. Níor chaill lucht an mhisnigh ariamh é.

• Chapter 1 TARA: A PLACE FOR ALL IRELAND, by A.P. Smyth
• Chapter 2 THE PHYSICAL ENDOWMENT OF COUNTY MEATH, by Robert Meehan
• Chapter 3 MEATH IN PREHISTORY: FROM FIRST SETTLERS TO THE DAWN OF CHRISTIANITY, by Steve Davis
• Chapter 4 GEORGE PETRIE’S ESSAY ON THE HILL OF TARA, by Michael Herity
• Chapter 5 LITERATURE AND LEARNING IN EARLY MEDIEVAL MEATH, by Clodagh Downey
• Chapter 6 MÁEL SECHNAILL MÓR, MIDE AND THE HIGH-KINGSHIP OF IRELAND, by Eoin O’Flynn
• Chapter 7 UPWARD MOBILITY AND SEIGNEURIAL RESIDENCES IN LATE MEDIEVAL MEATH, by A.S.K. Abraham
• Chapter 8 HUGH DE LACY’S LEGACY, by Noel French
• Chapter 9 A FAILURE OF LEADERSHIP? BISHOP EDWARD STAPLES AND THE REFORMATION IN MEATH 1529-1554, by Brendan Scott
• Chapter 10 WAR AND SOCIETY IN COUNTY MEATH 1641-1654, by Annaleigh Margey
• Chapter 11 THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT OF LATE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY COUNTY MEATH – AS SEEN THROUGH THE EYES OF THE TRUSTEES’ SURVEYORS OF 1700, by Arnold Horner and Rolf Loeber
• Chapter 12 THE BOYNE REVISITED, by Pádraig Lenihan
• Chapter 13 FORGING IRISH CULTURAL IDENTITY: THE SCHOLAR-POETS OF MEATH AND THEIR INFLUENCE, by Séamus Mac Gabhann
• Chapter 14 ASPECTS OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY COUNTRY HOUSE DEMESNE IN MEATH, by Kevin V. Mulligan
• Chapter 15 THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NAPER ESTATE DURING THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY, by Una Palcic
• Chapter 16 REVOLUTIONARY MEATH 1791-1798, by Ruan O’Donnell
• Chapter 17 CHURCH OF IRELAND PARISH AND CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF MEATH IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES, by Michael O’Neill
• Chapter 18 NATURAL AND HUMAN LANDSCAPES OF COUNTY MEATH: A PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY, by Brianán Ludlow and Francis Ludlow
• Chapter 19 THE ROMAN CATHOLIC CLERGY AND POLITICS DURING THE EPISCOPACY OF JOHN CANTWELL, 1830-1866, by Paul Connell
• Chapter 20 THE IRISH LANGUAGE IN COUNTY MEATH, 1700-1900, by Lesa Ní Mhunghaile
• Chapter 21 THE POWER OF LIFE AND DEATH: THE ROLE OF THE WORKHOUSE DURING THE FAMINE IN COUNTY MEATH, by Rachel Barrett
• Chapter 22 A LOVELY WILDERNESS OF GRASS: THE GRAZIERS OF RURAL MEATH BEFORE THE GREAT WAR, by Jim Gilligan
• Chapter 23 RICHARD T. BLAKE AND THE GAA: VILLAIN OR HERO?, by James Caffrey
• Chapter 24 THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE IN COUNTY MEATH, 1916-1921, by Ultan Courtney
• Chapter 25 A SHORT-LIVED EXPERIMENT IN LOCAL DEMOCRACY: THE RURAL DISTRICT COUNCILS OF MEATH, 1898-1925, by Arlene Crampsie
• Chapter 26 FROM SICKLE TO SINGLE PAYMENT: ASPECTS OF AGRICULTURE IN COUNTY MEATH SINCE 1899, by John McCullen
• Chapter 27 LIKE THE END OF A BEAUTIFUL WORLD: ECO-CRITICAL PERCEPTIONS OF LANDSCAPE IN THE WRITINGS OF FRANCIS LEDWIDGE AND LORD DUNSANY, by Charlie Travis
• Chapter 28 JIM CONNELL (1852-1929): MEATHMAN AND AUTHOR OF THE RED FLAG, by Danny Cusack
• Chapter 29 THE MIGRATION POLICY OF THE IRISH LAND COMMISSION IN COUNTY MEATH: THEORY AND PRACTICE, by William Nolan
• Chapter 30 HOUSING THE PEOPLE: PUBLIC HOUSING IN MEATH’S TOWNS, 1890-1939, by Peter Connell
• Chapter 31 TRANSPORT AND LAND USE PLANNING IN CONTEMPORARY MEATH, by Enda Murphy and Linda Fox-Rogers
• Chapter 32 NAMING THE LAND: MAPPING THE MEATH FIELD NAMES PROJECT, by Joan Mullen and Francis Ludlow
• Chapter 33 POLITICAL CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY MEATH, 1977 TO 2010. by Thomas M. Wilson
• Chapter 34 MEATH: TOWARDS A HISTORY OF SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHIES, by Tom French and Frances Tallon