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To develop a deeper insight into the writings of Oliver Goldsmith

To promote Goldsmith Country as a major tourist attraction

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Joe Farrell, William Dowler, Cecil English, Teddy McGoey, Dr. Pat Kelly, Willie Flanagan, Arthur Conlon, Anne Tully

Longford County Council

Goldsmith Literary TourGoldsmith Literary Tour Bus Tour featuring readings from selected works of

Goldsmith at well known locations including Forgney Church, Lissoy and Kilkenny West

Beginning at 11.00 am and returning to the Goldsmith Monument, Ballymahon Library

Admission Admission Admission Admission €10101010

9.00 pm Chair: Mary Carleton Reynolds

Official Opening: Eliza Pakenham Chisholm

Keynote Address: Derek Coyle

“Rallying against Impecuniosity: Oliver Goldsmith’s ‘Retaliation’ and ‘The Deserted Village’ as Spiritual Resources in a Recession

Light Refreshments - Musical Entertainment

11.00 am Goldsmith Literary Tour Adm. €10 (See over for details)

2.00 pm Chair: Peter Geoghegan

Cliodhna Ni Anluain: A Sense of Place in Sunday Miscellany

Chair: Emmett Arrigan

Larry McCluskey Recession, Retaliation, Recovery" in the plays of Oliver Goldsmith

6.30 pm The Three Jolly Pigeons

Goldsmith Barbecue featuring Traditional Music & Ballad Session with

Seamus Walsh, Greg O’Donnell, Padraic Keena & Friends.

3.00 pm Chair: Anne Tully

Poetry Readings by Acclaimed Poet Noel Monahan

Results of Poetry Competitions adjudicated by Mary Melvin Goeghegan Joe’s Cheese & Wine Readings of Winning Entries

Mary Carleton-Reynolds is Longford Co. Librarian since 2002. She has spearheaded the development of the public library service in Co. Longford as a key cultural and community resource. She is actively involved at local and national level in a number of innovative projects

promoting literacy and an appreciation of literature among young people. She was part of the team responsible for the refurbishment and conversion of the old Market House in Ballymahon

to a new community library and the location of a special Goldsmith Collection in this library.

Eliza Pakenham-Chisholm’s father is tree man and historian Thomas, and her grandmother was the biographer Elizabeth Longford. She has researched the huge, unpublished archive

found at Tullynally Castle, home to the Pakenhams for 370 years and has lectured extensively on the subject. Eliza has worked as an editor and journalist in London. She studied English

Literature at Oxford, and spent six months teaching English in Botswana. She is married with three sons and lives in Dublin & Westmeath, where she is working on a screen-play.

Derek Coyle hails from Kill, Co. Kildare. He has a doctorate from the University of Glasgow where he was based in the centre for the study of Literature, Theology and the Arts. Currently he

lectures in English Literature and Irish studies in Carlow College. He is working on a study of the sacred in contemporary poetry and his chapter, “I got raptures once, and I saw God”:Shabine as

Prophetic Shaman of Paradise in Derek Walcott’s “The Schooner Flight” is due to be published this year in Projections of Paradise”: The Dream of Ideal Refuge in Migrant Postcolonial Literature

Peter Geoghegan is a journalist and writer, originally from Longford town but now based in Edinburgh. The bounds between his professional and my non-professional life are almost non-

existent: he writes as a freelance for a range of publications including the Scotsman, the Irish Times, the Guardian and the Irish Independent; edits a magazine called Political Insight;

organises political cabaret events in Scotland under the name ‘Realpolitik’; and is a member of the New Public Thinkers discussion forum.'

Clíodhna Ní Anluain is a graduate of UCG, UCC and DIT. She has worked as a museum curator, a theatre producer and currently as an RTE radio producer on literary and cultural

programmes, including The Arts Show, Rattlebag, The Book on One, Reading The Future, Painted From Memory and Sunday Miscellany. She is the editor of Reading The Future: Mike

Murphy in Conversation with Irish Writers. She has edited three Sunday Miscellany anthologies including the recently published Sunday Miscellany: A Selection from 2008-2011

Emmett Arrigan is a native of Roscrea Co Tipperary now living in Athlone with his Austrailian wife Liz and their three children. Emmett has travelled extensively and has taught English in Japan and Australia before returning to

Ireland in 2003. He is presently teaching English in Ballymahon Vocational School. He has written an autobiography of Daisy Bates a Tipperary woman who devoted her life to the plight of native Australians. He has

also edited a version of Dracula for young readers which was translated into Irish by Gabriel Rosenstock. Writing is in Emmetts blood, his mother Mary Arrigan is an award winning writer of children and young peoples literature.

Larry McCluskey is a native of Co. Longford. He was one of the advisors at the establishment of the Goldsmith Summer School and a founding member of “Kavanagh’s Yearly”. He has been a member of the

boards of The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, The Arts Council and professionally, CEO of Co. Monaghan VEC. He has taught in Colehill, Africa, Cootehill, Bailieborough and Bray. His main arts interest is drama – as Artistic Director

and actor with Drumlin Players, Monaghan and as Secretary of the Guild of Irish Drama Adjudicators (ADA). He has broadcast on “Sunday Miscellany” and has always maintained his contacts with Longford and Goldsmith !

Mary Melvin Goeghegan was born in Dublin and now lives in County Longford. Her first two collections' The Bright Unknown' and 'Abbeycartron Cartron Epiphanies' were published with Lapwing 2003, 2005. 'When They Come Home' was published with Summer Palace Press in 2008. Currently working on 'Say it Like a Paragraph to be published with Bradshaw Books, Cork. She's an editor for Eurochild and has edited several anthologies of children's poetry including 'Ride Along Dear Grandma' 'A Hand in the Future' and 'From The Wild Wild West' featuring the work of Co. Longford primary pupils. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, The Sunday Times, Poetry Ireland Review, The SHOP, Oxfam calendar 2007 amongst others. She's a member of the Writers in School Scheme with Poetry Ireland.

Noel Monahan holds an M.A. in Creative Writing and has published five collections of poetry. His literary awards include: The

SeaCat National Award, The Hiberno-English Poetry Award, The Irish Writers’ Union Poetry Award, The William Allingham

Poetry Award and The Kilkenny Poetry Prize for Poetry. In 2001 he won The PJ O’Connor RTE Radio Drama Award for his

play “ Broken Cups”. His work has been translated into Italian, French, Romanian and Russian. His most recent plays include: “

The Children of Lir” and “ Lovely Husbands” a drama based on Henry James’ work.work and performed at the inaugural Henry

James Literary Festival, 2010 His poetry is now prescribed text for the Leaving Certificate English Course 2011 and 2012.

Friday June 3rd Rustic Inn, Abbeyshrule Adm. €10

Saturday June 4th Goldsmith Room, Ballymahon Library €10

Sunday June 5th Pallas (Goldsmith’s Birthplace)