The Green, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, N39VW40
Begins at 7.30 p.m.
The evening will begin with adjudicator comments about the entries to our Poetry and Short Story Competitions and will feature some entrants reading extracts from their winning entries followed by our adjudicators reading from their own work
Dark Daughter Productions
LOLA MONTEZ & LADY MORGAN – AN IMAGINGED CONVERSATION
A comedic tongue-in-cheek historical tale with scandal & intrigue galore!
‘Dark Daughter Productions’ offers a historical story of 2 women who walked along The Wild Atlantic way NW in the early 1800s. The piece is written by Maura Logue with Marianne Fahy as Lady Morgan and Maura Logue as Lola Montez. The play continues ‘Dark Daughter’s’ commitment to honouring forgotten women in Irish & Anglo-Irish history. Lola Montez was infamous as a ‘celebrity’ of the 1800’s. Lady Morgan, the former Sydney Owenson, was a renowned harpist and published writer. She wrote a novel – ‘O’ Donnell’ – where she glorified the Chieftain of Gaelic Ways. Her ‘Wild Irish Girl’ – a novel written in 1806, talked of the dispossession of Irish nobility in the time of Cromwell. The two women look back at their lives and in a “tongue-in-cheek” delivery, amuse the audience with scandalous anecdotes, commentaries and retorts. Duration 45 minutes
Local Comhaltas musicians will perform on the night
Refreshments will be provided.
Edgeworth Festival Committee warmly welcomes…
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This project was assisted by Longford Local Community Development Committee, Longford Community Resources Clg. and Longford County Council through the LEADER Programme 2023 -2027 which is part-financed by the EU, “The European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe investing in rural areas” and the Department of Rural & Community Development
Molly Twomey grew up in Lismore, County Waterford and now lives in Cork. Her first collection, Raised Among Vultures, was published in 2022 by The Gallery Press. It won the Southword Debut Collection Poetry Award and was shortlisted for the Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. She was awarded the 2023 Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary and an Arts Council Literature Bursary in 2024 to work on her second collection, Chic to be Sad, published in 2025 by The Gallery Press.
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Charlie McGettigan started his musical career in the 1960s in various rock bands in Donegal. Moving to Dublin in 1968 he honed in on the thriving folk scene there at the time. In 1973, Charlie formed the highly successful group Jargon, which went on to win the prestigious Letterkenny Folk Festival, following in the footsteps of bands like Clannad and Pumpkinhead. Charlie has worked with artists like Maura O’Connell and Eleanor Shanley who both recorded many of his songs including “Feet of a Dancer”, “A Bed for the Night” and “If Anything Happened to You”.
Charlie joined forces with Paul Harrington and Brendan Graham to win the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest for Ireland with “Rock n Roll Kids”. He has released many solo albums including “In Your Old Room”, “Family Matters” “ The man from 20” and “Stolen Moments” produced in Nashville by legendary producer Bil Vorndick. Charlie’s songs have been recorded by many artists including De Danann, Mary and Frances Black, Ray Lynam, Daniel O’Donnell, Sandy Kelly and Hal Ketchum to name but a few. Charlie presents the Arts Show and the Saturday Connection on Shannonside / Northern Sound radio. Both programmes focus on what’s happening in the world of Arts and Entertainment in the region. His book ‘Forever a Rock n Roll Kid’ was released in 2023.
Maura Logue is a Donegal Writer and Performer. Maura writes and performs her original works for Stage or Parlour performances. Her stories focus mainly on forgotten women in Irish & Anglo-Irish History. She also scripts “Issue Based” Theatre works. Maura is a costume designer and costume provider for Films and Theatre. She produces original works and offers her costume service under her company title, ‘Dark Daughter Productions & Costume Hire’
Marianne Fahy trained as an actor at the Gaiety School of Acting. Roles she has enjoyed playing include : Matron in Borstal Boy - Gaiety Theatre Dublin. Molly Bloom’s soliliquy by invitation at Yale University Conn. The Mother in Jacko with Yew Theatre, Ballina. First God in the Gallowglass production of The Good Woman of Sechaun.
National tour:- Pegeen Mike in Sevenwoods Production of Playboy of the Western World at Cork Opera House and a national tour . She has worked extensively in the RTE Drama An tSathairn.
More recently, she performed in The Factory performance space in Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood. She loves working with Dark Daughter Productions, exploring the theme of women forgotten by history.