Celebrating Heritage Week 2025 at the Maria Edgeworth Centre Heritage Week 2025 at the Maria Edgeworth Centre in Edgeworthstown was a truly memorable celebration of our town’s rich history. A variety of events throughout the week drew visitors from near and far. They all were eager to explore the stories that make Edgeworthstown so special. […]
Regency History in Edgeworthstown: Celebrating Maria Edgeworth’s Legacy A Fascinating Talk on Jane Austen’s Favourite Author in Dublin On 17th June 2025, our Edgeworth Society members: Matt, Angela, Michael and Goretti travelled to Dublin to attend a captivating talk at the National Library of Ireland. The presentation, “Jane Austen’s Favourite Author: Maria Edgeworth of County […]
National Famine Commemoration 2024 held in Edgeworthstown Today, March 1st, 2024, Catherine Martin T.D., Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport, and Media, as well as Chair of the National Famine Commemoration Committee, has announced that this year’s National Famine Commemoration will be held in Edgeworthstown, County Longford, on Sunday, May 19th, 2024. The public […]
A feature of the Arts and Culture Scene in Longford The Maria Edgeworth Literary Festival has been a feature of the Arts and Culture scene in Longford for the past twenty-eight years. Over the years the Maria Edgeworth Festival Committee has explored different cultural avenues and worked to expand the Festival’s impact and audience. The […]
A Visit to Edgeworthstown worth your while? Recently the novelist Amelia Chambers payed a visit to Edgeworthstown and the Maria Edgeworth Center. She gives a wonderful account of the time she spent at the Center and in our beloved town. Discovering the Anglo-Irish author Maria Edgeworth. There is more to Edgeworthstown Its not just Maria […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
Despite her work as a novelist, short story writer and playwright, Maria Edgeworth was also a prolific letter writer. Therefore she wrote to family and friends about events that they witnessed and lived through. As a result Maria left us letters on how the Edgeworths were experiencing the 1798 rebellion. The Irish Rebellion of 1798 […]
