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