Preface
Solstice – A Prologue
Chapter 1: Wilde’s Way
Chapter 2: Source
Chapter 3: Bermingham Country
Chapter 4: The Famine Bridges
Chapter 5: Trim and its Lords
Chapter 6: Brother Dunsany and Brother Killeen
Chapter 7: Tara: an eminence with a view
Chapter 8: Where the royal waters meet: Navan and area
Chapter 9: A short history of Kells
Chapter 10: The Witches Hops: around the Loughcrew Hills
Chapter 11: High beetling crags, feudal halls and ruined chapels: the way to Slane Chapter 12: Cycling to Newgrange
Chapter 13: Incomparable Knowth
Chapter 14: Dowth to Townley Hall
Chapter 15: Mainistir Mór and Mainistir
Chapter 16: “Smoak and Dust”: the Battle of the Boyne
Chapter 17: My Native Town
Chapter 18: The Sieges of Drogheda
Chapter 19: To the Sea
Samhain – An Epilogue
Appendix: The River as Witness, a select chronology
Further Reading and Notes
Acknowledgements/About the Author
Index