Over the years the Edgeworth Society and the Literary Festival Committee have hosted events and welcomed visitors to our town to celebrate and promote our rich heritage and history. The photos on this pages can give you an insight into our recent activities. Visit our Facebook pages for more.
Galleries here feature the visit of students from Notre Dame in 2019 and the launch of a new book on Maria Edgeworth at the new Library, photos from the new Library, Heritage Week Walk and an art Exhibition from the Library (Nostalgia)
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On the 17th of August 2024 as part of Heritage Week, with support from the County Heritage Officers, the Heritage Council, Longford County Council Libraries, Archives, Arts and Heritage,
IMMA, OPW and the Computer and Communications Museum Ireland on the NUIG Campus,
Ray Jordan and volunteers from the Maria Edgeworth Centre aim to simulate Edgeworth’s 1803 transmission by telegraph.
Click the link below to learn more or to register to attend either in person or via Zoom.
Join us for this recreation of a key moment in the history of communications