The Green, Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, N39VW40
1 hour 30 mins
For the 2026 Maria Edgeworth Festival, the Witty Wicklow Writers (Jeroen Vandommele, Maria Stavropoulou and Vitor Vicente) propose a 90-minute session combining short readings and a lively, bantery conversation. Jeroen will read from his travels across Ireland, having spent a night in every county; Maria will share a piece on women and writing; and Vitor will read as a travel writer returning to Edgeworthstown and exploring the idea of revisiting places where one was happy. We will also hold a warm, witty discussion about the behind-the-scenes of writing — creativity, voice, process, humour — with room for audience interaction
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Vitor Vicente
Vitor Vicente is a Portuguese author of 12 published books with the theme of travelling running through all his work. He has been living in Ireland for more than 8 years. Some of his stuff has been translated to Spanish, Polish, English and Hungarian.
His latest title is the poetry collection “Harry Kernoff’s Guest”, which also contains reproductions of the paintings that inspired the writing.
He hosts the podcast TheWittyVitor.
Noelle Lynskey
Noelle Lynskey, poet, mother and pharmacist in Portumna, completed her MA (Creative Writing) in U.L (2022). Selected as Strokestown’s Poet Laureate in 2021, Noelle launched her first poetry collection Featherweight (Arlen House) in May 2025. With multiple awards and readings behind her, Noelle’s work appears in anthologies and on radio and in recent new work was published in Sunday Miscellany 2023-2025 (New Island), Poetry Ireland Review, Belfast Review, Frazzled Lit and Crannóg. She facilitates Portumna Pen Pushers where she is artistic adviser to Shorelines Arts Festival. In Autumn 2025, she was awarded an artist residency at Interface, Connemara and this year is collaborating with sculptor Cathal McCarthy on a new sculpture in her hometown, Strokestown.
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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