2011 Events
Events
Admision to events €10
Friday June 3rd
Rustic Inn Abbeyshrule
- 8:30pm – Recital by the Innyside Singers
- 900.pm – Chair: Ms. Mary Carleton Reynolds
- Official Opening: Ms Eliza Chisholm
Keynote Address: Derek Coyle
Light Refreshments and musical entertainmemt
Saturday June 4th
11:30am: Goldsmith Literary Tour
Literary Bus Tour of Goldsmith Country featuring readings from selected works of Goldsmith at well known locations including Forgney Church,The Three Jolly Pigeons, The Busy Mill, Lissoy and Kilkenny West.
Beginning at the Goldsmith Monument, Main St., Ballymahon at 11:30 a.m and ending at the library Ballymahon.
2.30p.m:Library Ballymahon
Chair:Peter Geoghegan
Speaker to be confirmed.
3.30.p.m: Speaker:Mr Larry McCluskey
6.30.p.m: Goldsmith Barbecue at The Three Jolly Pigeons
Sunday June 1st
3:00 Pallas (Goldsmiths Birthplace), Abbeyshrule
- Chair: Anne Tully
- Poetry Readings by Acclaimed Poet Noel Monahan
- Results of Poetry Competitions
adjudicated by Mary Melvin Goeghegan - Joe’s Cheese & Wine & Musical Entertainment
- Readings of Winning Entries