Frontispiece

• Photograph of part of the Museum's exhibition commemorating the 1798 Rebellion

Highlights of the Year

• List of some of the main events of the year - acquisitions, exhibitions and publications.

Common Matters.....James Hawthorne

• Text of remarks at the annual dinner of the Friends of Down County Museum.

• The events surrounding the commissioning, campaign and summary execution of one of the leading figures in the 1798 Rebellion in County Down.

• Three newly discovered letters written before and just after the Battle of Ballynahinch shed some new light on those momentous events.

• An oath of loyalty from 1797, a time of pending insurrection, with an interesting twist...

The Marjorie and Sydney Moore Art Collection.....M. Lesley Simpson

• Details of 17 paintings from a private art collection donated to the Museum.

Yawls at Killough, County Down.....HC Magill

• Details of the construction of a named yawl in the context of yawl fishing from Killough in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

The story of a dress.....M. Lesley Simpson

• The background and alteration of one of the Museum's dresses donated by a resident of the County.

Archaeology on a farm.....M. Lesley Simpson & Brian S. Turner

• A collection of archeological artifacts found on a farm and donated to the Museum by the owners.

From Ballyquintin to Buffalo, Boston, and beyond.....Gerard F. Lennon

• An emigration account of the Crangle and Monan families from the townland of Ballyquintin, as written by one of their descendants.