Historical Sites in Longford – Miss Maria
A visitor to our town – Patrick Dunne – wrote of his visit to the historical sites in Longford and how his pre-conceived notions about
A visitor to our town – Patrick Dunne – wrote of his visit to the historical sites in Longford and how his pre-conceived notions about
The construction of the Spire in Edgeworthstown Richard Lovell Edgeworth erected a pre-fabricated spire on the Church of St John in 1811 – it lasted
A new gravestone as a memorial to Isola Wilde In 2012 at the suggestion of Wildean scholar Angela Kingston a decision was made to erect
This item is courtesy of the Worcester Journal Why Maria Edgeworth Matters December 14, 2015 by Sean O’Rourke Believe me, I know. A nineteenth- century
Hall’s Tour of Longford and Edgeworthstown Samuel Carter Hall (1800-1889), and his wife Anna Maria (1800-1881) compiled a three volume guide to Ireland between 1841-1843.
Michael Pakenham Edgeworth is best known for this work in the field of botany and for his diaries about his time in India. But he
It was not uncommon for books in the 19th Century to feature illustrations – Sidney Paget’s work for Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Sherlock Holmes’ series is
The following post came from the Regency History website and is used by the kind permission of the author Rachel Knowles. She is researching Jane
The construction of the Spire of St. John’s Church in Edgeworthstown In 1811 – Richard Lovell Edgeworth, with the aid of his son William, erected