Visual History Heritage Week
A recreation of the 1803 event where Richard Lovell Edgeworth sent a message by his telegraph from Dublin to Galway
Edgeworth’s Optical Telegraph: Recreation Dublin to Galway 1804
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 event from 1804. On 17th August, the first day of Heritage Week, history was revived through a remarkable simulation connecting the Royal Hospital Kilmainham in Dublin to the Insight Centre […]
The Famine in Edgeworthstown
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
York Conference on Maria Edgeworth
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 on the following report from the event. He himself is an artist from Edgeworthstown, living in London and thankfully an Edgeworth enthusiast. Re-discovery of a major lost Irish female voice […]