The Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2023
in Association with Nally Bros., Ballymahon
All Results are now available.
1. Daniel Dunne – Mullingar -the King is Dead
2 . Isabella Mead – Bristol UK – The Glen Miller Story
3. Mark Fiddes – Dubai UAE. – The Hartford Accident and Indemnity Policy
HIGHLY COMMENDED
Laurence O’Dwyer – The Calculus of Swing
Louise G. Cole – Around the World in 80 Days
Suzanna Fitzpatrick – Redwings
Kaitlin Deaton – Birthmark
John Baylis Post – Tribute Band
Seamus Harrington – Writers Block
Glen Wilson – In the grace of Haynes manuals
39th Annual Goldsmith Festival
June 2nd-4th 2023
WEEKEND TICKET – ALL EVENTS FOR ONLY €25
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2023 THEME
“Citizens of the World, Ireland’s Emigrants and Immigrants”


ENTRIES HAVE NOW CLOSED FOR THE
2022 Results now available here
€800 in Prizes

Goldsmith Winter Festival 2021
is now POSTPONED
The Goldsmith Winter Festival for 2021 due to take place on Friday Nov 19th has been postponed to a future date. This due to recent Govt advice regarding meetings and gatherings.
Goldsmith Festival 2021
Full Details of the Festival Programme are here.
Details of the location are below. The event will include the winning and highly commended poets reading their successful entries, reading and critique by Noel Monahan and some musical interludes.
Pallas is the birthplace of Oliver Goldsmith and is accessible off the R392 Ballymahon to Mullingar road, very close to the new Longford Forest Center Parcs development.
The google maps link is here.
The Goldsmith Festival is scheduled to take place over the June Bank Holiday weekend, June 4-6 and will be an entirely online event.
See details of our speakers here


“The Deserted Village”
As ‘Rural virtues leave the land’
The Environmental, Economic and Social sustainability of Irish Agriculture.
Goldsmith Online Festival 2020
Videos of this event are available here
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