Roscommon History and Society. Interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish County is the  twenty-sixth volume in the History and Society series. This book contains 920 pages and 202 illustrations. Below please find the table of contents.

1.Monuments and mobility in early prehistoric Roscommon by Noel McCarthy;

2. Between north and south, east and west. Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age connections and transitions in County Roscommon by Carleton Jones;

3. Roscommon in later prehistory – a land of kings and heroes? by John Waddell;

4. A comparative archaeological review of the late prehistoric ‘royal site’ of Rathcroghan by Joseph P. Fenwick;

5. Early medieval Roscommon by Niall Brady;

6. Medieval settlement in north Roscommon, c.1200AD – c.1350AD by Kieran O’Conor and Thomas Finan;

7. Observations from remote sensing of the earthwork at Dundonnell Castle, Co. Roscommon by Daniel Curley;

8. The Place-Names of Co. Roscommon by Liam Ó hAisibéil;

9. The late medieval Irish-language manuscript tradition in North Roscommon: the case of Royal Irish Academy MS 23 N 10 by Kevin Murray;

10. The Gaelic Heritage of County Roscommon by Nollaig Ó Muraíle;

11. Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire by Benjamin Hazard;

12. ‘That Much Wasted Country’: Wartime Roscommon 1641-47’ by Pádraig Lenihan;

13. Local Government in Co. Roscommon by Matthew Potter;

14. Kilronan Castle and Mote Park: the decline of two Roscommon Big Houses by Orla Fitzpatrick;

15. Roscommon Estates and Landowners: Diversity and Durability by Patrick Melvin;

16. The role of the Roman Catholic and Church of Ireland clergy in the distribution of relief during the 1822 Famine in County Roscommon by Brian Casey;

17. Strokestown and the Pakenham Mahon estate by Ciarán Reilly;

18. The Great Famine in County Roscommon by Mary Kelly;

19. Roscommon: land ownership, land occupation and settlement by P.J. Carty;

20. Sir William Wilde and the Wildes of Castlerea by Gerard Hanberry;

21. William Percy French, 1854-1920: The Roscommon born entertainer, songwriter, poet and artist by Alan Tongue;

22. Roderic O’Conor: Portrait of an Artist by Jody Moylan;

23. Early diary insights into Roscommon’s impact on Douglas Hyde, Ireland’s first President by Máire Nic An Bhaird and Liam Mac Mathúna;

24. Graziers and Grabbers by Jim Ganly;

25. Father Michael O’Flanagan by May Moran;

26. Roscommon’s line in the snow: George Noble, Count Plunkett and the 1917 election by Honor O Brolchain;

27. ‘Down with the Paris Farmer!’ – Frank MacDermot and class politics in 1930s Roscommon by Tony Varley;

28. The Glory Days of Roscommon Football in the 1940s by Tony Conboy;

29. Politics in Roscommon, 1923-2018 by Michael Gallagher;

30. Employment and population 1996-2016: growth, recession and delayed recovery by Mary Cawley;

31. Roscommon in literature, 1600-2000 by Luke Gibbons;

32. Jim Delaney and his work as a folklore collector in Co. Roscommon by Bairbre Ní Fhloinn;

33. John McGahern’s Roscommon by Frank Shovlin;

34. Roscommon: a personal perspective by Richie Farrell;

35. Towards a county map: mapping Roscommon into the early nineteenth century by Arnold Horner.

Price €60.