Friday May 30th

Rustic Inn Abbeyshrule 8.30 pm

• Chair: Sheila O'Reilly, Editor Longford Leader
• Official opening: Paul Reynolds, Well known RTE Personality
• Keynote Address: Kevin Myers, Journalist, broadcaster and commentator
• Music and Entertainment

Saturday May 31st

12.00 Bog Lane Theatre, Ballymahon

Debate: "The Irish Media, Privacy and the Law"

• Chair: Tadgh Carey
• Speakers:
• Michael Commane, Priest and Journalist;
• Mary O'Rourke TD;
• James Bannon TD;
• Ciaran Mullooly RTE Midlands Correspondent.

2.15 Goldsmith Literary Tour

Beginning in Ballymahon taking in many sites associated with Goldsmith

 

4.30 Change of venue: now Bog Lane Theatre, Ballymahon

"Irish Comic Writing"

• Chair: Anne Tully
• Cormac McConnell, Writer and Journalist;
• Frank McNally Reporter and Columnist;

" Goldsmith the Journalist: Musings and Amusings "

• Declan McCormack Writer and Historian.

7:30 The Three Jolly Pigeons

Ceol agus Craic

Sunday June 1st

3:30 Pallas, Abbeyshrule

Poetry Competitions and Readings

• Chair: PJ Wash
• Michael McDonald
• Vera Hughes
• Jean O'Brien

Results of Primary and Post-Primary Poetry Competitions

Joe’s Cheese & Wine

Results of Goldsmith International Poetry competition

Readings of winning entries