Another Literary Festival 2020 Short Story Competition John Connell, the second of our judges, had the task of selecting the winners of the Literary Festival 2020 Short Story Competition. John Connell is a multi award winning author, film producer and former investigative journalist. At 33 he is a United Nations (Australia) Media peace prize winner […]
Another Literary Festival 2020 Poetry Competition Although we had to cancel this years 25th Anniversary Literary Festival we were still able to hold our Poetry and Short Story Competitions. We had some excellent entries this year and our judges had some tough decisions to make but we got our first, second and third places for […]
The exhibition of the Bodleian Edgeworth Collection Over the past year a project has been run to look at the Bodleian Edgeworth Collection – materials kept in the Bodleian Library in Oxford. ‘Opening the Edgeworth Papers’ is a one year project funded by Oxford University’s Fell Fund. Basically, the Library hopes to raise the profile […]
The Edgeworth encounter with Modernity on the Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference Regarding the 250th anniversary of the great writer Maria Edgeworth‘ the Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference’ took place this weekend 8./9. December 2018. Those of us who grew up in the shadow of the Edgeworth big house in County Longford in the 1950s […]
Castle Rackrent on stage The following article was submitted to us by Edgeworthstown-born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the adaptation of Maria’s Edgeworth’s book ‘Castle Rackrent’ staged in the Backstage Theater in Longford on the 8th, 9th and 10th November. Maria returns “Maria Edgeworth returned to Longford this weekend, and what a delight to meet […]
Maria Edgeworth in York University Bernard Canavan attended the recent Maria Edgeworth Conference in York University. Held on the 29th and 30th June. He sent on the following report from the event. He himself is an artist from Edgeworthstown, living in London and thankfully an Edgeworth enthusiast. Re-discovery of a major lost Irish female voice […]
The Abbé Edgeworth born Henry Essex Edgeworth Born Henry Essex Edgeworth into the notable Edgeworth family of Anglo-Irish Protestants, in 1745. His father, a Church of Ireland rector in the local Parish, took the exceptional step of breaking from ‘his class, his culture and his education’ and embraced Catholicism instead. ‘The scandal was immense’. Shortly […]
Premier of Maria Edgeworth The following article was written by Edgeworthstown born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the show ‘Maria in Mind’ premiered at the 2018 Edgeworth Literary Festival. “Maria Edgeworth In Mind” Edgeworthstown May 2018 Maria Edgeworth is not dead. She came back to Edgeworthstown today to celebrate her 250th birthday. Moving quietly […]
Celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary Today – – the 1st of January 2018 – we are celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary. Daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and heavily influenced by him. She was an enlightenment intellectual, writer and moralist. Also acutely aware of the responsibilities of her class and supported her father throughout his life in affecting […]
