Honora Edgeworth Medallion
A Historic Acquisition: The Maria Edgeworth Centre Secures the Honora Edgeworth Medallion The Maria Edgeworth Visitor Centre & Museum in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, is proud to announce the acquisition of a historically significant artefact that will soon take pride of place in its collection—the Honora Edgeworth medallion. This exquisite piece, designed by the renowned British […]
Edgeworth Telegraph Heritage Week
A recreation of the 1803 event where Richard Lovell Edgeworth sent a message by his telegraph from Dublin to Galway
In the Footsteps of Maria Edgeworth in England
In the Footsteps of Maria Edgeworth in England – a literary journey by Matt Farrell Having lived most of my life in Edgeworthstown – the town that takes its name from the Edgeworth family – and having grown up in a home that nurtured a sense of community, it was inevitable that I should have […]
Richard Lovell Edgeworth and James Sadler
Amorous and Airborne Adventures: the Edgeworths in Oxford, Paris, and Dublin I have lived in Oxford for more than 30 years. Oxford, where Richard Lovell Edgeworth spent a very much shorter time as a student, is the county town of the village in which Maria Edgeworth was born and where her maternal ancestors lived. Coincidentally […]
Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s Telegraph
History made in a little town in County Longford – Ireland’s Midlands Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s Optical Telegraph In the late eighteenth century, Edgeworthstown in County Longford, Ireland was the site of experiments in a cutting-edge communications technology – Richard Lovell Edgeworth’s Optical Telegraph. In the old days people used smoke signals, beacon fires, flags or arms […]
Edgeworth International Education Conference
Reflections on the 1st Edgeworth International Education Conference Rich heritage and history hidden in Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford Like most Longford denizens I know Edgeworthstown like the back of my hand. Or that’s what I thought until the rich heritage and history hidden behind the streets of this small town, were brought to light recently by […]
Maria Edgeworth and the Great Famine
Maria Edgeworth trying to help “Her heart went out to the poor and afflicted…” said “Biddy” from Edgeworthstown about Maria Edgeworth and the Great Famine. Toward the end of her life the Great Famine ravaged the land of Ireland and Maria Edgeworth. Like other women during those times she did all she could to try […]
Drawings of the Edgeworth Family and Maria’s Work
Rare drawings of the Edgeworth Family Being involved with the lives and times of the Edgeworth family often means finding new things of interest about them, like the rare drawings of the Edgeworth family. My first Blog post in a long time and I have two new items to share. Firstly I want to share […]
The Bodleian Edgeworth Collection
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 […]