Maria Edgeworth Festival
of Literature & Arts

Event Details

Open Mic Poetry

Friday evening, 10th May 2024

Date & Time

10May2024

Poetry unleashed

Rhyme and Rhythm: Unveiling a Night of Poetry at our Open Mic Event

From 7.00pm until 9.00pm

Free + registration (see below)

Venue

Co:Worx, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, N39AH64

About the Event

2 hours

Longford Writers Group is delighted to host an evening of poetry as part of the Maria Edgeworth Festival.
The Longford Writers Group has a beautiful relationship with poetry, both traditional and contemporary and is excited to invite poets from around Ireland to take part in this enchanting evening. Refreshments will be served.

Places are limited for both reading poetry and attending as a poetry appreciator; please make contact well in advance in order for us to put your name on our list.
Looking forward to a marvelous evening with you all.

Tickets

free event
register your interest in reading or simply attending by emailing imeldacarroll79@hotmail.com

Facilitator

Longford Writers

Longford Writer’s Group consists of a dedicated group of local writers who meet in Longford Library every third Wednesday at 8.00pm. The group has a membership of about 20. Its project in 2019 was the publication of a collection of short stories and poetry entitled ‘Home Made’, with contributions from 17 members.

Grateful appreciation to our sponsors

Recreation of 1803 Edgeworth Telegraph Event

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.

>> REGISTRATION PAGE

Join us for this recreation of a key moment in the history of communications

Maria Edgeworth Festival of Literature & Arts