Visual History Heritage Week
A recreation of the 1803 event where Richard Lovell Edgeworth sent a message by his telegraph from Dublin to Galway
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A recreation of the 1803 event where Richard Lovell Edgeworth sent a message by his telegraph from Dublin to Galway
Recreating History with 21st Century Technology Heritage Week 2024, with its theme “Connections, Routes & Networks,” kicked off with the simulation of Edgeworth’s Optical Telegraph
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
In the Footsteps of Maria Edgeworth in England – a literary journey by Matt Farrell Having lived most of my life in Edgeworthstown – the
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
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
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.
The exhibition of the Bodleian Edgeworth Collection Over the past year a project has been run to look at the Bodleian Edgeworth Collection – materials
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