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Literary Festival 2020 Poetry Competition Winners

Another Literary Festival 2020 Poetry Competition Although we had to cancel this years 25th Anniversary Literary Festival we were still able to hold our Poetry

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

The Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference 8./9. Dec 2018

The Edgeworth encounter with Modernity on the Trinity College Maria Edgeworth Conference Regarding the 250th anniversary of the great writer Maria Edgeworth‘ the Trinity College

An adaptation of Castle Rackrent – a view from the audience

Castle Rackrent on stage The following article was submitted to us by Edgeworthstown-born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the adaptation of Maria’s Edgeworth’s book ‘Castle

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

L’Abbé Edgeworth – An Edgeworth Abroad

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

Maria Edgeworth In Mind

Premier of Maria Edgeworth The following article was written by Edgeworthstown born poet Dr. Philip Brady about the show ‘Maria in Mind’ premiered at the

Maria Edgeworth, celebrating her 250th anniversary

Maria’s 250th anniversary

Celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary Today – – the 1st of January 2018 – we are celebrating Maria’s 250th anniversary. Daughter of Richard Lovell Edgeworth and

Edgeworths experiencing the 1798 rebellion

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

Jottings about Edgeworthstown