Blog - Maria Edgeworth Centre

Literary Festival 2020 Short Story Competition Winners -2nd Place

Here is our second place winner Sharon Black with her story Mollie. Congratulations Sharon MOLLIE ‘SHE’S A REAL BEAUTY. I know I’m always saying it,

Literary Festival 2020 Short Story Competition Winners -1st Place

The second of our judges, John Connell had the task of selecting the winners of the Short Story Competition. John Connell is a multi award winning

2020 Literary Festival Poetry Competition Winners

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

Meeting the Edgeworths

Maria Edgeworth Centre, Edgeworthstoown Over the past year a project has been run to look at the collection of Edgeworth materials kept in the Bodleian

THE EDGEWORTH ENCOUNTER WITH MODERNITY; THE TRINITY COLLEGE MARIA EDGEWORTH CONFERENCE 8.9. DEC 2018

Those of us who grew up in the shadow of the Edgeworth big house in County Longford in the 1950s and were privileged

Castle Rackrent – a view from the audience

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

York Conference on Maria Edgeworth

Bernard Canavan – an Edgeworthstown artist living in London attended the recent Maria Edgeworth Conference in York University held on the 29th and 30th June

L’Abbé Edgeworth – An Edgeworth Abroad

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,

Maria In Mind

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.

Jottings about Edgeworthstown