The Roscommon Association, Dublin.

Forerunner to Roscommon Association Yearbook.

The Roscommon Men's Association, Dublin.

"Roscommon Past & Present"

Compiled and edited by  Martin F. Coffey. 1961. 113 pages.

Printed by The Herald Printing Works, Boyle.

The Roscommon Association also produced a number of poetry books. Follow this link to view.

In 1980 the Roscommon Association Dublin began publishing "The Roscommon Association Yearbook". The Yearbook contained various articles about Roscommon, its people and its heritage and over the years has become a great source of information on many aspects of the county's history and heritage. This is our complete collection of Yearbooks. The list below also contain the contents of each volume. In addition we have provided an index to authors etc. courtesy of the Association.

We are interested in ephemeral material of any kind relating to The Roscommon Association (in Dublin or elsewhere), including tickets, invitations, booklets, menus, brochures, etc. If you have any such material that you would like to see preserved for the future, please contact us.

To search an author, topic and placename index for the Yearbooks below follow this link.

YEARBOOK INDEX

The facility is provided courtesy of the Roscommon Association Dublin. (First published in the 2003 Yearbook).

The Roscommon Association, Dublin Yearbook 1980 to 2003.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1980. 108 pages.

Contents: Introduction, Chairman's Message, Roscommon's Literary Heritage, St. Attracta, Strokestown - No Ghost town, Constans Hibernia Cor, Roscommon's Patriots, Castlerea, Josie McDermott, Roscommon - A Tourist Destination, The Men at the Helm, Should Old Acquaintance Be Forgot, The Sound of Silence, The School Around the Corner, Sport in Roscommon, The Fair Day, Ballaghaderreen, Statistics, The Town I Love so Well, Ballintubber Castle, Golf in Roscommon, It's Only Castles Burning, Down Memory Lane, No Man Is An Island, Roscommon Sketches, Memories of My Time in Boyle, The Lost Ones, Clonalis House, Guest of a Nation, The Dominant Industry, Do You Remember, A Not So Common County, Donamon - A Brief History, Economic Development in Co. Roscommon, Did You Know, Roscommon Association - Dublin, Strokestown Takes Industry to Heart, Edward A. Sheeran, Poetry, Roscommon C.B.S., French and Goldsmith, Development in Co. Roscommon, Roscommon Society - New York, A Busy Irish Union Leader, Rooskey, A Man of Many Talents, Sport Snippets, The Man Who Turned the Key, The Roscommon Connection, Directory.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1981. 108 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, Situations Vacant, Thrilling Climax to Feast of Sport, God Save Our Pope, What Does One write About, A Legend in Handball, Young Stars Grab Honours, Sir William Wilde, Castlerea's Most Famous Son, Cherry House - A Story of Love & Affection, Bright Future for Ladies' Gaelic Games, The treasures of Castlestrange, Ballintubber Makes Clean Sweep, The Roscommon Grand National, Roscommon's Industrial Traditions, ICA Its Beginnings & Connections With Roscommon, Roscommon Company Wins Best Award, Roscommon Association - Dublin, The Place That Suited St. Patrick, Athletic standard High, The Day of the Station, Sports Shorts, A Year of achievement, Remember when, The Good Old Days, The River Shannon, Coping with the Old in Roscommon, Today's Children - Tomorrow's Workers, Did You Know, Martin Conlon Nationalist & Politician, Na Breaithre Criostai í Ros Comain, Roscommon Authors, Reception for the Roscommon GAA. Team on All Ireland Day & the Launching of the 1980 Yearbook, High Quality football, What's Another Year, Boyle Past & Present, Population, Labour Force & Incomes, Faction Fights in Co. Roscommon, A Much travelled Roscommon Man, Poetry Corner, Sketches of Roscommon, Roscommon in Numbers, Roscommon's New Electoral Area, Knockcroghery - My Own Place.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1982. 108 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, When Maynooth's Dirty Linen Was Washed in Ballaghaderreen, Letters, 30 Years A Growing, Roscommon Crucifixion Plaques, Roscommon, The French & The Canadian Mounted Police, Tony Fallon, Tommy Guihen, Ivy House Castlerea, Is Roscommon Ready for 2000 AD?, Roscommon - A Different Irish Holiday, Perspectives on Changes & Development in South Roscommon, Roscommon 150 Years Ago, The Lakes of Roscommon, Roscommon Women, As I Saw It, Knockcroghery Sports Star, Athletics, Roscommon's Contribution to the Establishment, Roscommon - The Forgotten County, I Remember Roscommon, Remember The Prices, Percy French's Old Curiosity Shop, The Roscommon Trail in Dublin, The Moving Bog, Lough Key Forest Park - Looking Back, The Past in Pictures, Handball Part of the Royal court, Religion in Numbers, How Are The Vocations, Famous Fuerty Family, Looking Back Along the Line, Sports Shorts, Did You Know, Winter GAA Out?, Self Discipline v Space Invaders, Pictorial, Launch of 1981 Yearbook, After the Ball Was Over, Random Memories, The TCD Connection, The 1912 Connacht Football Final, Roscommon Internationals, Roscommon Peoples Association - Galway Branch, The Roscommon Connection, A Literary County, The Clay Pipe Factory, Downriver on my First Command, The Roscommon Sheep, Roscommon Hurling, The Ghost of Strokestown, Sketches by Berna Chapman, Directory of Industries.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1983. 92 pages.

Contents: Introduction, Dr. Douglas Hyde Park, Education for Enterprise, Tulsk, Puttin' on the Style, Memories Are Made of This, Aspects of Moral Responsibility, A Viennese Roscommon Man, VC's for Roscommon, Roscommon Archaeology, A Town I Did Not Know Much About, Roscommon People Want to Work At Home, A Commentary of the Roscommon Yearbook 1982, County of Saints, Kiltullagh - The Church on the Hillock, Roscommon, Weather Forecast for County Roscommon, GAA News, Take a Look At Your Ceiling, Sporting Records, Pictorial, Reminiscences of my Friend Robert McWilliams, The Town I loved So well, Frenchpark parson Defies King, Crossword, Roscommon Contribution to the Literary scene, Deer in Roscommon, St. Caolainne, The Major General who Loved Boyle, Roscommon Courthouse, The agricultural Problem, Camogie in the County, Dr. Keenan Receives Merit award, Counties, Silver Jubilee Celebrations in Birmingham, The Old Jail, Father Kevin Flanagan, Changing Times in Co. Roscommon, Dr. Brighid Lyons-Thornton Tells her Story, The Provincial Press, The Tragedy of Paddy Moran, The Kilteevan Tradition, Diocesan Divisions, Aspects of the Legal System, The O'Flynns, We're from Fuerty, Earl of Roscommon, The Roscommon of History, Martin Kearns.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1984. 92 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, Our Literary Contribution, Roscommon Peoples Association Galway, Roscommon's Exiles activities, The Cross of Roscommon, Sporting snippets, Local History and Tradition, Bet You Haven't Seen the Half of It, Tom Kilroe - A Profile, Camogie in the Heart of Ireland, Camogie - Convent of Mercy, The Computer Revolution, Roscommon Handball 1983, Cospoir, Slieve Bawn Co-Operative, Old Athleague, The Connacht side of athlone is a Roscommon Town, The Galey grenades, The Weakfield "Eviction Slab", Fr. Michael O'Flanagan - Sceilg's Graveside Oration, Statistics and General Information, Tampa Bay - Roscommon, No Carrots from Clonown, Facts About Roscommon, Community Relations, The Knockcroghery Dudeen, Did You Know?, The Future of Education, Roscommon TD's, The Horse Fair, Loughglynn and Lisacul, Fr. Hugh Alphonsus Brennan O. Carm, Ecumenism in Roscommon, Yearbook '83 - A Commentary, LSF - LDF - FCA, Ballintubber Sweeps Clean, GAA Highlights, Constant Hearts, Farming 25 Years Later, The Lake District of Ireland, Mother paul, Castlerea Centre, Were You There?, General James O'Moran, Golfing Successes, The Roscommon Connection, Assassination at Harristown, Joe Tiernan, The Open Forest, Rooskey - A Meeting Place, St. Colmcille's Prophesy, Ballymurray As I Remember It, The 'Lectric Revolution, Travelling Shop, The Rural Housing Organisation.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1985. 80 pages.

Contents: Introduction, Roscommon Associations, From the Past, Bishop's Address, Msgr. John P. McHugh, Must The GAA Go Professional, The Limerick in Literature, Roscommon Limericks, A Roscommon Song, Friday Evening in Roscommon, Quiz, Dublin Zoo, The Roving Entertainer, Lough Ree, Parents Have a Larger Part to Play, GAA Champions for 1984, Property in Roscommon, Home Thoughts From Abroad, Dublin - Myth and Reality, The Tulsk banner, Active Interest in Handball, High Quality From Hanley's, "One More Cow, One More Sow", Roscommon Town, Poet's Corner, The Mayor From Donamon, Gazetteer of Co. Roscommon, 700th Anniversary of Granting of Roscommon Charter, Pat Drury, An Economic Review, High Return From Forestry, Albert the Maestro, Small Firms Can Provide More Jobs, Agriculture - Where Does It Go Now?, Percy French Remembered, Historical & archaeological Society, Agricultural Holdings, The Railways of Roscommon, Bad Times in Roscommon, Kilmore Church Memorial, "Triallam Timcheall Na Fodhla", The Extraordinary Growth of the Irish in the US, Comments on the 1984 Yearbook, Roscommon Association in Galway, The Holy Wells of Roscommon, Athleague Remembered, Random Remarks, O'Sullivan Beare in Roscommon, Keeping Irish Music To The Fore, A Tribute to a Star, Sports Snippets, Community Projects in Action, Roscommon Association in Birmingham, Boyle Suffragist, Did You Know?, Tradesmans' Memorial Slabs, Roscommon Hurlers, An Appreciation, St. Brigid's Cave Drumduff, Michael Forde, Tidy Towns, Bomber Crashland in Strokestown, Roscommon Rangers Ladies.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1986. 88 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, Roscommon Association Yearbook Priorities, The Roscommon Association Dublin, Tour Your Own County, Did You Know, Our County Associations, Directory of Industrial Enterprises, Camogie in Roscommon, The County Council of Roscommon, Roscommon Association in New York, Know Your Officials, GAA Champions for 1986, Owen McCann Talks to Former Player Tony Regan, County Roscommon GAA Clubs, What the GAA Means to Someone from New Zealand, Our Clergy, Churches & Parishes, Catholic Churches in Co. Roscommon, Sports Snippets, Memories, Some Facts & Fantasies about Railway Stations, Roscommon Photographs, Report on Our Tidy Towns, Songs of Roscommon, Those Were the Days, Know Your County, Official Seal of Roscommon County Council, Professional Services in Co. Roscommon, Your Local Post Offices & Garda Stations, Your Local Peace Commissioners, Misprints, An Ode to Percy French, The Shores of Lough Ree, The Town I Love so Well, The Parish of Knockcroghery, The Roscommon Mid-West Association - Chicago, Padraig Keane, Strokestown Park, Aughrim, Boyle Star, Bad Times in Roscommon, Croghan Versus Ballinameen, Leaf Ireland, Alcoholics Anonymous, Primary Schools in Co. Roscommon, The Parish of Croghan from Earliest times, Jails Old & New in Roscommon Town, Roscommon Families, Proposed Changes to the CAP, Boyle Gala Festival, Dublin in the Rare Old Times, Ballintubber: A Golden Village, Historical & Archaeological Society, Bishop Laurence Gillooley, Roscommon Literary Productions, Dr. Brian J. Sheahan, Memories of Good & Bad Days.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1987. 84 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, County associations, County Roscommon, North Roscommon, Roscommon County council, The Lakes of Roscommon, A Brief account of the Activities of E. Company, 3rd. Battalion, South Roscommon Brigade, Industrialisation and Education in Ireland, Bust of Dr. Douglas Hyde Unveiled, Aer Lingus - Roscommon, The North-Roscommon Bye-Election of 1917, Change Here For, International Re-Union, Did You Know, Milestones in Roscommon, Some Items of Roscommon Folklore, Michael O'Callaghan - A tribute, Letters Page, Tragedy in Cloontymullen, Co. Roscommon GAA & Soccer Champions 1986, GAA Fixtures 1987, Sporting Roscommonites, Picture Parade 1986, Roscommon Sporting Personalities, Sports Round-Up, All-Ireland Titles, Happy Anniversary, Roscommon Peoples Association Galway, Job-Creation Initiatives in Roscommon, The Mission, People, Roots, Tribute to Pat and Dermot, By Lovely Lough Key, Dublin City Marathon, A Roscommon Man's dream, Mercy Convent Roscommon PPU, Holiday Memories, The Parish of Creeve (Craobh), Bobbing in Cloonfad a half a Century Ago with the King of Poachers and his Men, Roscommon CBS, Life in Lough Key forest Park, Kilbegnet to Donamon, Roscommon Man of the Year in New York 1987, The holy Well of Oran, The Knockcroghery Dudeen, Co-Operatives Old and New in Co. Roscommon, Roscommon Co-Operatives, Parade Diary, Tidy Towns Competition.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1988. 80 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, County Associations Worldwide, Special Competition for pupils, Roscommon Association (Dublin), Programme for 1988, Fixtures 1988, International Reunion 1988, The Honours List, The Year That Was, Roscommon People's Association - Galway, Megalithic Tombs Burial Customs Associated with the Court Cairns, Dr. Douglas Hyde Commemorative Weekend, Ballaghaderreen 1922: George Southgate Black & Tan, McMaster as Othello, South Bend '87 - A Memory, Strokestown Park House, The Holy Wells of Roscommon, Arigna, Why They're Talking Football in Kerry Again, Maeve The Warrior Queen & The Táin, The Shannon in Roscommon, Castlerea, Castlerea's Past, Ballinlough, Changing Times in the Champion, Moylurg Writers Group, Sermon on the Occasion of the Mass of the Resurrection for Donal O'Conallain - Given by Monsignor Travers, The Spalpeens: The Escapades of a Spalpeen Among Spalpeens and An Unfrocked Monk, Market & Fairday in Roscommon Town Long Ago, A Roscommon Centre for tracing our roots, Roscommon Castle Tells It's Story, Emigration and the GAA, Gone to the Dogs, Eithne Quinn, Kilmore, GAA President Elect Pays Tribute to Work of County associations, Southpark House, Profiles, Did You Know?, The Shannon Scheme, James Higgins - Poet & Wit, Roscommon County Development Team . Tidy Towns 1987.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1989. 64 pages.

Contents: Editorial, New York GAA, Michael Butler, Roscommon Association Dublin, Memories of My Childhood in Hospital, Roscommon County Development, A Profile of Ballyleague, Our Townlands, Ballaghaderreen, Cathedral Windows, 1959 A Historic Year, Don't Believe Them, Castlerea Church of Ireland, Darts in Co. Roscommon, Kilkeevin Parish Churches, Castlerea, Community Living For People with Mental Handicap, Remembering Hanna Greally, 11th. O'Carolan Harp Festival, Travelling People, The Kilteevan Surgeon, James Joyce & The Roscommon Connection, If You Seek His Monument Look In The Main Square Of The Town, Sporting, Handball & The Castle Wall, Roscommon Handball, Profiles, How Family Ties Have Been Strengthened On The Travel Front, Royal O'Connor Clan Association, Roscommon Hurling Faith, People, Did You Know, Seats of Learning in Castlerea, Sport, Queen of Roscommon Festival, Rehab Lotteries, Athleague & It's Surroundings, Co. Associations Re-Union, Knockcroghery Night of Terror, Our Irish in England, Ballymoe to Ballintubber, Which Four Roads, Roscommon / Galway Association, O'Carolan Celebrations, Events.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1990. 64 pages.

Contents: The Dublin Roscommon Association, Castlerea, Roscommon, Boyle, the Birthplace of the GAA in Roscommon, Gone & Forgotten, Tidy Towns, The Royal O'Conors of Connaught, Roscommon Society Formed in Washington, The Big House, Memories of Rockingham House, Roscommon Fight For Freedom, Our Literary Scene, Bernie Parades His Passion in Public, Thoughts on Roscommon's Heritage, Holidays, John Fitzgibbon, Glorious Publications, O'Carolan Harp Festival, Roscommon Association - Washington DC, Gately house, Strokestown Park House, Living in The Home County, Roscommon Rangers, Shannonside - Your Local Radio, Roscommon Lords in the House, Book Reviews, Poetry, All Irelands, King House, Boyle, Queen of Roscommon, Champions in '89, Fixtures in 1990, Happenings in Roscommon, The Roscara Centre, Donamon - A Brief history, Donamon, The Connaught Rangers, Camogie, All Stars from Roscommon, Roscommon County Development Team, Sports Awards 1989, Youth of the Year Award, Roscommon / Galway Association, Picture Parade.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1991. 68 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, Ivy House & Suaimhneas House - Co. Roscommon Today, Queen of Roscommon Festival 1990, Developments in Co. Roscommon, O'Carolan Harp Festival - Keadue, Book Review, Highway Athlone, Mná Roscomáin, Roscommon in New York, St. Michael's School Castlerea, We Are Clannish, Early Days in Ballaghaderreen, Rules of the Lodging House, Kilmore History, The Woodlands of Loughglynn, Boyle's Defenders, Lenten Pastoral, The Ballymurray Seanachaí, Galway, John Fitzgibbon 1848 - 1919, Boyle Champions 100 years ago, Edward A Sheeran - Grand Marshall 1990, Sporting Endeavours, Roscommon - Ireland's 8th County, County associations World Wide, O'Carolan Memorial Park, Cathedral Windows, Music & Sport from Boyle, Memories, St. Patrick's Hospital - Castlerea, Camogie Inter club Scene, County Roscommon Old IRA, The Céilí Barn & Bottle Blowers, Strokestown 1916 - 1923, The Late Rev. Joe Smyth, History of Frenchpark, Rose of Tralee Contest, Talent Competition, Tidy towns Results, Poetry, Literature / Publications, Roscommon's New Library, Let Us Arise, The End of an Era, Roscommon's Year in the US, Camogie - County Scene, Where are they now, An American Scientist, Let Us Remember 1921 - 1991, The Roscommon Connection, International Re-Union, Picture Parade.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1992. 80 pages.

Contents: Roscommon Associations Worldwide, Chairman's Message, First Ever Roscommon Taoiseach, The Roscommon Society of Washington DC, Roscommon Town, County Roscommon has a future, Fortieth Anniversary, The Other Roscommon, Queen of Roscommon Festival 1991, Address and Presentation to Ald. F. Murty O'Beirne, Douglas Hyde Commemorative and Interpretative Centre, Death of a Railway, Boyle Town, The Wandering Soul of Irish Music, Strokestown Park 1991, Literature, Ballaghaderreen, More Memories of Strokestown, Brian Carthy, Challenging Times for Roscommon farmers, The Nine Fridays, A Hundred Years at Tarmon, A Unique Roscommon Gathering, Paddy Moran Commemoration, Terry Connaughton, The Fair Day, "I Was In Boyle Once - at a Fleadh", "Roscommon Fare Thee Well", County Roscommon cares for the Handicapped, Your Councillors, County of Milk and Honey, Mary Rose, Winners All, Elphin, Camogie, Ladies Football, A Museum for County Roscommon, Fr. Michael O'Flanagan, Bianconi in Roscommon, The Big House, Galway - Roscommon association, Roscommon Dublin Association Programme 1992, Soccer Champions for 1991, The London Irish, Local Endeavours, From The Old School Books,  Roscommon- The Water Paradise, Milestones, The Rockingham Shoot, Who's Who in Roscommon, The Sheridan Circle in Washington DC, Tidy Towns, Our Gardaí, Picture Parade.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1993. 80 pages.

Contents: Message from the Chairman, Tourism, Making Time for the People, Who Wants to be Lord of the Manor, In the Beginning, Parnell & Roscommon, Combating Rural Decline in the West of Ireland, Memories of Castlerea, Úna Bhán Tourism, A Strokestown Craftsman, Ballaghaderreen - The Day Before Yesterday, Roscommon on the Air, Waiting at the Crossroads - for Tom Waters, Roscommon R. C. Church, Elphin Area Community Enterprise, Roscommon Elections Under the Union, Oft in the Stilly Night, Elphin Windmill Restoration, International Reunion, Our Simon Connection, 50 Years On, Were You There 50 Years Ago, Ballinlough, Roscommon Midwest Association - Chicago, The Wild Birds of Roscommon, People, Ros Comáin Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, Newspapers in the Nineteenth Century, Frenchpark, Queen of Roscommon Competition in Washington DC, Callow - or Carrickbeg, Commemoration of Fr. Michael O'Flanagan, Our Dead in Glasnevin, Memories of Rockingham, Old Country Roads, Anniversary Dinner, The well of St. Coman, Golfing News, Did You Know?, Our Hurlers, All Irelanders, Roscommon's Fixtures & Events 1993, Raymond Went for Gold & Got It, Counties Talent Contest, Literature, O'Carolan Heritage Park & Centre, Mount Talbot National School Mass Homily, Extracts of an Interview with Mr. Joseph Caulfield, Roscommon Ladies GAA, Letter to the Editor, Boyle Child Education & Development Centre, Tidy Towns Results 1992, Vote For Me, Your Identity, Roscommon Association Galway.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1994. 80 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, Rose of Castlerea Festival, A Roscommon Man, Roscommon County Enterprise Board, The Strange Story of a Roscommon Man, Roscommon's Many Attractions, Goldmines in Schools, My Father - John Shiel matchmaker, The Moylurg Writers, The Rising of the Moon, Knock, The Lung Valley, Jasper - The Paper Tiger, President Robinson's Visit to Ceiliúrlann an Craoibhín, Roscommon Chairman in Leeds, Music Held Him With It's Magic Spell, Roscommon Repeat Last Years Winning Streak, Albert's Waiting Game, Boyle Arts Festival, Castlerea, Community School Castlerea, The Rose of Roscommon 1993 Ballinlough, The Suck Valley, Roscommon Events & Fixtures 1994, Publications / Literature, The Population Crisis, John Fitzgibbon of Castlerea, Secondary Education in Ballaghaderreen, Football Crazy Football Mad, No Strings Attached to Brendan Shine, History 7 Heritage Preserved, Roscommon County Council, Thank You Ireland, Our Farmers, New York Here We Come, Fifty Years A Long Time, Knockroe National school Homecoming Festival, Lest We Forget, The Centuries Old Windmill At Elphin Takes Shape, Famous Roscommon Racehorses.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1995. 80 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, Roscommon Association Dublin, Builders of a City, Extracts from Roscommon County Council Annual Report, Castlerea - in the Years Before 1914, 1925 Marathon Contest, Co. Roscommon Society, Inc. of New York, Castlerea, Prison, Roscommon Newsmakers Of the Past decade, The Roscommon Society of Washington DC, King House, From Sydney to Doughill, Ballaghaderreen, Hurlers Year of Glory 1965, Hurling in Co. Roscommon, Boyle, Scór in Rural Ireland, Books Reviewed, Achievers & Special Awards, Fixtures & Events for 1995, Roscommon Authors are reunited in Washington DC, Roscommon Association Birmingham, Roscommon Shouts STOP, Handball, Camogie, The Mercy Nuns - Strokestown, Tourism in Co. Roscommon, Mullen, Roscommon Midwest Association Chicago, Sporting Snippets, Banking of GAA, Is Co. Roscommon Doomed to Die, Frenchpark Revisited, A Look Back at The Day in The Bog, A Rooskey homecoming, New County Arts Officer Appointed, Elphin Area Community Enterprise Ltd., Being Patsy, Tidy Towns, A Famous Roscommon Chimney Sweep, Kiltrustan, Co. Roscommon Association for Mentally Handicapped, Midnight Mass in Ballinagare 1726, Our Olympians.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1996. 88 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, Know Your County, Your County Associations, The Roscommon Society of Washington DC, Directory of Roscommon Business People, Roscommon Doctors, First Impressions of Roscommon, Elphin & The West Gets Its Windmill, Elphin Heritage Trail, Roscommon County enterprise Board, King House - A Success Story, They Are All Saints, Roscommon Association Sydney, The Famine Exodus from Strokestown, The Road To Ballagh, A Roscommon Haven, Roscommon & The IFA, Our Common County: Roscommon USA, Extracts from an interview with Joseph Caulfield, Save Our Shops, St. Ascicus Patron of Elphin Diocese, Seán Mulryan - Not a Man to Throw in the Towel, Strokestown, An Open Letter to Irelands Winner of the Nobel Prize, The Harp of Erin, Tourism in Co. Roscommon, St. Patricks Church Castlerea, Castlerea Economically 12 Months On, Castlerea Agricultural & Trade Show, Roscommon Association Galway, A Most Extraordinary Man, Festival Times in Roscommon, Ballymoe, St. Brendan in Roscommon, Liam McGann - The Music Man, Famine Times, Tribute to Martin Kearns, The Hillstreet batoning 1907, Roscommon Camogie, Champions All, The Men at the Helm, The Women in Our Lives, Were You There?, Kiltullagh Church & Graveyard in Co. Roscommon, Roscommon Publications.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1997. 80 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, Roscommon, Tourism in Co. Roscommon, Places to visit in Co. Roscommon, A visit to Roscommon in America, Directory of Roscommon Business People, Ballaghaderreen & District Development Limited, Luke Hayden M.P. 1851 - 1897, Agnes Morrogh-Bernard 1842 - 1932, Annals of the Four Masters; The Roscommon Connection, Roscommon County enterprise Board, The Roscommon Society of Washington DC, Unprecedented Tourism Awareness, Our Man in Bosnia, Ballaghaderreen, Castlerea - An Update, Distinguished Entomologist With County Roscommon Ties, Co. Roscommon Associations International Re-Union '96, Assassination at Harristown, Film Star Gabriel Byrne opens Elphin Windmill, County Roscommon Association of Boston, International Queen of Roscommon, Champion Celebrates 70th. Birthday this year, Tramping the Culm, Agriculture in County Roscommon, Douglas Hyde Conference, An Obscure G.P. in a Provincial Town, Roscommon Partnership Company, The Mayo/Roscommon Hospice Foundation, Roscommon County Council Arts Office 1996 Report, Facts & Figures of co. Roscommon, Handball, Suck River Valley Development Co-Operative, Reflections on a National School Reunion, The Peacock Ramblers, Maidens in Action, Roscommon County Council Tidy Schools Competition, Cloonbonniff School Re-Union 1875 - 1996, Tidy Towns, Roscara, Mullaney Clan Members Celebrate Their Roots, Callaghans Dublin 1796, Brothers in Sport, Chicago Association, The Plains of Boyle, Fragmentation of Co. Roscommon, GAA Fixtures & Champions, Chasing After atoms, The Men's Solidarity, County Roscommon Society of New York, Awards, Roscommon / Birmingham Association, Roscommon Publications, Societas Verbi Divine, John L. Sullivan, The Death of the Tangler, Pictures of Roscommon.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1998. 88 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Message, Our Presidents, Roscommon County council Strategic Plan 1997 - 2001, Is Roscommon an Island, A Half Million Pound Development for Tulsk, Dr. Douglas Hyde Conference, Echoes of Neutral Ireland, A Great Roscommon Man, Roscommon County Enterprise Board, Roscommon Town, How Roscommon Got It's Colours, Our Gardaí, Mayo/Roscommon Hospice, Curlew Walking Tour, Tarmonbarry, Boyle & the Rockingham Estate, Awards, A Day for the Sheepwalk Area to Remember, New York & Chicago associations, The History of the Flag, Castlerea - Anticipating, 1997 - A Year of Progress for Ballaghaderreen, Literary tradition, The Emergency - A Memory, Roscommon associations Some activities, Presentation to Eamon Boland, Boyle Chamber of Commerce, Enterprise Kiltullagh, Edward Duffy, Celebration at Elphin Windmill, Dr. Douglas Hyde Interpretative Centre, Kathleen Dwyer- Morris, The Roscommon Society of Washington DC, Roscommon Hall of Fame, Turfed Out, 1996 Census, Frybrook House Boyle - Roscommon in 1798, Your Roots, The Big House, Our Lady's Shrine Knock Co. Mayo, East Connacht Energy Agency (ECEA), Farming in Co. Roscommon, Our County, Nine Famous Irishmen, Ballaghaderreen in The Past, The Transfer of the GRO to Roscommon, People and Boston Roscommon Association, My Memories of Roscommon Town, Kiltoom Link with UN Chief's, Tidy Towns in 1997, Is It Time to Dump Fathers and Mothers, Who Moved Ballaghaderreen, Keeping the Faith, Treasures of the Suck Valley, GAA Fixtures / Results, Rural Resettlement, Bygone Days, Brothers of Charity services 1981 - 1998, Two Lovely Ladies from Castlecoote, Roscommon Handballers, Counting Sheep.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 1999. 88 pages.

Contents: Chairman's Address, The Battle of the Curlieus, Roscommon Chamber of Commerce, Official Seal of Roscommon County Council, Castlerea in the Picture, Centenary Celebrations Kilteevan National School, A Year in the Life of a Community, A History of Co. Roscommon, Tulsk - A Paragon of Community, Roscommon Association Sydney, Roscommon Natives Greet President in Australia, Mayo/Roscommon Hospice Foundation, The Roscommon Roses, Believe it or believe it not, News from the Roscommon Association of Washington DC, The Importance of Being Irish, What a Wonderful Experience, Enterprise Kiltullagh in West Roscommon, Elphin Windmill Update, Where are we going, Roscommon Association of Boston, The Roscommon Herald, A little thought can travel a long way, Rural Water - A new era, The memories of childhood, Amongst Women - in Castlerea, The Warrior Queen, Roscommon Murders of 1847, Roscommon Native leads New Jersey St. Patricks Day Parade, Come Dance With Me, Old Style Lenten Fast, farming in Co. Roscommon, Loughglynn Carnival, Roscommon CEB (Mission Statement), The Roscommon Association Galway, The Strokestown Democrat Printing Works, Douglas Hyde Conference, Official Twinning, Mid-South Roscommon, An Irishman's Diary, Tidy Towns 1998, The mother of Ernie O'Malley, Roscommon Publications in London, Our Friends Overseas, Boyle farmer is tops, Roscommon People Awards 1998, Light & Change, 1959 - 1999, Freedom of Information Act 1997, Rural settlement, History of Boyle Library service, My Own Place, The Parochial Hall, In Memory of, The Millennium, Jobs for the boys & girls, County associations, Former footballer is now Religious Order's Provincial, GAA Results / Fixtures, Lydia takes US by storm - again, New Era in Roscommon Handball, The Minor All-Ireland Title 1939, Sporting Times, Knock Shrine, Our First Dáil 1919, Sporting Times, Some of the People who came to Castlerea, Midnight, George Simson (An appreciation), News in Brief, County Roscommon Publications.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 2000. 80 pages.

Contents: Editors Message, County chairman's Greetings, Childhood Memories of Flying Feathers, Exile's Homecoming, Ballaghaderreen - A Microcosm of Regeneration, Millennium Challenges & Opportunities for Ballaghaderreen, People of the Year Awards, My Native Place, Achievements and Awards, Daily Life (on a low budget), Local Government Elections, Aspects of the History of Corca Eichlinn, A Boyhood Dream, Remembering Main Street Roscommon, BMW Regional Assembly, The Geometry Lesson, Memories of the Shannon, Message from the County Manager, Mayo / Roscommon Hospice Foundation, Rural Resettlement, The millennium Book, Dr. Douglas Hyde Conference, Burning the Midnight Oil, Rinndown - A Forgotten Fortress, Gathering of the Clans, Heritage of Co. Roscommon, Curlieus 400, Will Paddy be Coming, Places to Visit in Co. Roscommon, Roscommon Town Museum, Emergency days - Summerhill College, It's a dot.com Wo5rld, Irish Farming in the New millennium, Patron saints of the Parishes, Progress in Ballinlough, Roscommon Partnership Company, The Kearney family of Ciarraige Maigh Ai, Persecution of Priests in Penal Times, Trumpet Blowing, The GAA in Roscommon, Sporting Snippets, County Associations, New York Gain, Strokestown Park, 100 Years of Local Government, Sen. Brian Mullooney reflects.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 2001. 64 pages.

Contents: Roscommon Association - Dublin 2001, Message from the Chairman, A Note from the Editor, Tribute to Michael Fitzmaurice, Message from County Council Chairman, Message from County Manager, International Millennium Reunion, My Queen of Roscommon Diary, Michael Cox & Arthur Cox, Our Audience with Pope John Paul II, Dr. Douglas Hyde Conference - 2000, "It's up to yourself" said the doctor, It happened in 1921, The Roscommon Association Forty Years Ago, Roscommon Past & Present 1961, Drum's Ancient Funeral Route, farming - A Career Choice, Past Pupils Reunion Planned for Ballinlough School, Isaac Weld and his Survey of Roscommon, Holy Year Cross Illuminates Sliabh Bán, The Impact of the Celtic Tiger on Clooneyquinn, Demand for Hospice Care Increases, Strokestown Development association 1991 -2001, Living Through the Economic War, Evolving Strategy of Roscommon Enterprise Board, The Borders, Midland & Western Regional Assembly, Picture Parade, Roscommon Co. Manager's report for 1942 - 47, Milling in Castlemore, Exploring Royal & Ancient Roscommon at Cruachán Aí, Rev. Charles O'Conor D. D. 1764 - 1828, The Seven Raftery Sisters from Gortaganny, The Growing Popularity of King house, Co. Roscommon - A Quarter Century of Reflection, Roscommon Investment seminar, Strokestown Fenian Arrests in 1867, Roscommon's Proud tradition in 50 Years of Comhaltas, Roscommon Champion People of the Year Awards, Roscommon Arts News, Roscommon Town Gaols, Ode to Roscommon Gaol, The Active Age Project, Home is in the Heart of Ireland, From the Heart of Ireland to 1950's Dublin, The Glorious Twelfth in West Roscommon, Bust Year for Roscommon Authors, Minor Champions of 1951 Celebrate, Roscommon Sports Roundup, Capital's GAA Supporters Celebrate, Roscommon GAA Honours for 2000, Roundup of News from Roscommon Associations.

Roscommon Association Golden Jubilee Yearbook. 2002. 128 pages.

Contents: Jubilee thoughts from the Roscommon Association, A Note from the Editor, Cathaoirleach welcomes new amenities in Roscommon, John Tiernan - Roscommon's New County Manager, Congratulations from the Cathaoirleach of the Seanad, County Manager salutes Roscommon Association, Congratulations from Bishop Christy Jones, from Bishop Ken Clarke, from Bishop Thomas Flynn, from Most Rev. Dr. Michael Neary, from Bishop Colm O'Reilly, Our Visit to Aras an Uachtarain, Dublin's Roscommon Association 1952 - 2002, People of the Year Awards, Calling Dublin from Home & Abroad, The Emergency, Goodbye to the Towers, A Gift to Roscommon from the Pampas, Down Memory Lane, The Sacred Heart Church, GRO Sets Roots in Roscommon, The Road to Rodeen, Ballintobber Play castlerea in a 1639 Hurling Match, Attracting Enterprise to Roscommon, New Management structure for Roscommon Co. Co., Roscommon County Development Board, Roscommon Arts News 2001, Paddy Moran - Patriot & Trade Union Leader, Commemorating a Roscommon patriot, An Incident at Loughglynn, Loughglynn Revisited, Summer Solstice at Owenagat Cave, Change & Celebration - Aughrim NS 1900 - 2000, Global Warming, An Ambition Realised, Knockcroghery - Now & Then, King House Comes Alive in 2001, South Roscommon - An Athlone City Suburb, An Architect who left his mark in Co. Roscommon, Roscommon Business Names in Dublin Disappear, Hospice .. , Quakers at Ballymurray, Athlone, future city of the midlands, Between the lakes, Martin Casey's Globe, A Roscommon Legend .., Enterprise Alive in West Roscommon, The Harp re-strung, Ballinameen .., "Caught" four times in one night, Past Pupils .. Ballinlough, Some Memories of the Fifties, Sliabh Bán, Customs associated with illness & death, Mt Dalby family, .., Going Home, Roscommon's Korean Veterans, What are our expectations from the countryside, Comhdáil an Chaoibhín 2001, Dr. Douglas Hyde Summer School, How to hate Golf & Influence People, Ballaghaderreen - On the road to progress, Full Circus - Full Steam Ahead in Ballaghaderreen, Memories of my Uncle Pat, Revisiting Ballaghaderreen after 50 years, Memories of Eamon Boland, The Bronze Age in the Parish of Kilbride, Co. Roscommon Tidy Towns, Oran - The Parish of the Cold Spring Well, The Green Heartland along the Suck valley, Roscommon Books Published in 2001, GAA Reflections .. 2001, Busy Year for GAA Supporters Club, The Beautiful Game of Handball, Roscommon 2001 GAA Honours, Roscommon Sporting Roundup.

Roscommon Association Yearbook. 2003. 84 pages.

Contents: A Note from the Editor, Message from Association's Life Presidents, Mayor Congratulates Association, County managers Message, Poetry, Calling Dublin From Home & Abroad, Magic Memories of Croke Park 1943, A Changing Ireland, Comhdáil An Chaoibhín 2002, Roscommon CBS 50 Years Ago, To Fatima and Back, Derryglad Folk Museum, Rahara 50 Years Ago, Roscommon Arts News 2002, John Carty, London Born Roscommon Musician, Roscommon Population Grows by 3.5%, Loughglynn - 1952 Minor Champions, Paddy Fallon - An Appreciation, Review of associations Golden Jubilee Year, Misadventure On Our Way To A Civic reception, Fifty Golden Years, Roscommon - My Hopes & Aspirations, Sister Jacinta Accepts Golden Jubilee Award, Roscommon Association Dublin Celebrates Golden Jubilee, Civic Reception For association's Golden Jubilee, Gunrunning, Planning For A Vibrant Co. Roscommon, From There to Here, Remembering Fred Kelly, As A Matter of Fact, The Parish Of Kilmore in the 1800 Period, Roscommon Books Published in 2002, Roscommon Sports Roundup, Roscommon 2002 GAA Honours, Index to Roscommon Association Dublin Yearbooks 1980 - 2002 and Roscommon Past & Present 1961.

A new magazine: Roscommon Life. Incorporating the Roscommon Association (Dublin) Yearbook

In 2004 the Association began to publish a more colourful magazine, edited by Paul & Fiona Healy.

To see our collection of Roscommon Life, follow THIS LINK

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