St Patrick's Breastplate

• Photograph and description of Oisin Kelly's bronze sculpture "Saint Patrick's Breastplate"

• Discussion on the characteristics of the display of Saints insignia - crosses, bells, croziers in early Irish Christian tradition.

• Cross slabs in Down Museum - description and pictures.

• Life of the Saint (1095-1149)

From monastic to secular.....A S K Abraham

• An anatomy of two early modern estates in south-east Ulster and north Louth: the Bagenals in Newry and the Carlingford region and the Cromwells in Lecale.

• An essay on a neglected Scots-Irishman.

The 'alarming' Edward Smyth.....Robin Roddie

• Story of a controversial pastor and his travails in Castleward.

John Wesley and Primitive Physic.....H W Gallagher

• The story of a home medical dictionary in the Down Museum authored by John Wesley, founder of Methodism.

• The life and works of a gravestone carver from Burren in the nineteenth century.

William Crolly, Archbishop of Armagh 1835-49.....Ambrose Macauley

• The life, works and trials of the man from Ballykilbeg.

Presbyterian Communion tokens.....W D Bailie

• Origin of and variation in the tokens in posession of the Museum.

Zula the Greek.....Joseph Cooper

• History of the establishment of Kilwarlin Monrovian Church and the strange story of Basil Patras Zula, the Greek, and how he came to Kilwarlin - not forgetting the representation of the Battle of Thermopylae in the church grounds.

• Continuation of the 1997 Down Survey article "The Round Tower of Down" following the acquisition of an oil painting from a former Downpatrick family.

• A Bible Quilt.

• The story of a wideranging collection of Quaker books in the Philip B. Watson Library, Craigavon and some of the colourful characters who contributed to it.

From Down to Dohnauvur: The life of Amy Carmichael.....Myrtle Hill

• The story of a girl from Millisle who devoted her life to the welfare of children in southern India.

Christianity and Irish museums.....Brian S Turner

• Dissertation on the role, if any, of museums in the representing religion through material objects.

'What a friend we have in Jesus'

• The well known hymn written by Joseph Scriven, born near Banbridge.