Heritage Week Event 2024

Edgeworth Telegraph
Event Details

Edgeworth Telegraph Event 2024

Saturday 17th August - Free Event

Date & Time

17Aug2024

Edgeworth Telegraph Heritage Week

From 2.00 p.m. until 3.00 p.m.

Free

There are 198 places available.

You can choose to attend in person at one of the three venues in Dublin, Galway, or Edgeworthstown. Alternatively, you can register for the online option and receive a Zoom meeting link at least 24h beforehand. Simply tick the appropriate box on the registration form. If attending in person, type the venue into the Venue box.

Closing date for registration is Saturday August 17th 1.00pm

Choice of Venues

Onlinevia Zoom

Dublin – Royal Hospital Kilmainham – Dublin 8, D08 FW31

Galway – Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Eircode H91AEX4

Edgeworthstown – Maria Edgeworth Center – Ballymahon Rd, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, N39 E3C8

Tickets

Free Event
Spaces are limited
Registration necessary

About the Edgeworth Telegraph Event

Simulation of Edgeworth pioneering telegraphic message from Dublin to Galway in 1803/04.

Ray Jordan and his team are reviving Edgeworth’s telegraphic connection. Using modern technology, they are simulating a transmission from Kilmainham, Dublin, to the campus of the University of Galway.

You can attend in person to experience the excitement up close or enjoy this historical moment from the comfort of your home via Zoom.

As well as witnessing the event a number of people will be chosen to ask questions and make comments after the event. Numbers for this will be limited to keep the length of the event manageable.

What does the telegraph look like and how did it work? Find out more about Edgeworth’s Telegraph here in our Blog Article.

>> This map shows the locations of the suggested signal towers on the route. You can zoom in and out to this map and click on flags to get more information.

Thanks to Máiréad Ní Chonghaile, Heritage Officer, Longford Library, Arts, Heritage & Archives Services for supplying the map.

Facilitators

Edgeworth Society, Ray Jordan & National Heritage Council

Ray’s background is as an engineer in Posts and Telegraphs at Telecom Eireann. In 1994 he became interested in the possibility of Telecom Eireann actually simulating Edgeworth’s semaphore system between Dublin and Galway.

Unfortunately, he retired shortly afterwards, and the project was abandoned. It did not resurface in his mind until 2023. At that time, he became interested in Edgeworth again and constructed a replica of the Edgeworth telegraph. With the support of the Maria Edgeworth Centre, he replicated Edgeworth’s trial run between Tullynally Castle and Edgeworthstown Manor.

Now, with support from the County Heritage Officers, the Heritage Council, Longford County Council Libraries, Archives, Arts and Heritage, IMMA, OPW and Insight Centre for Data Analytics, University of Galway, Ray Jordan and volunteers from the Maria Edgeworth Centre aim to simulate Edgeworth’s 1804 transmission.