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40th Annual Goldsmith Festival

May 31st – June 2nd 2024

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2024 THEME

‘Nothing he did not adorn’

The Oliver Goldsmith Festival at Forty

The programme for the 2024 Festival is complete and will be announced at our Press Launch on May 10th 2024 in the Shamrock Lodge Hotel, Athlone

Festival 2024 Brochure available here

Goldsmith Festival Poetry Competition 2024

€1000 in prizes Kindly Sponsored by Nally Bros Ballymahon

RESULTS AVAILABLE HERE

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.

Promo Video available 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 the Event Flyer Here

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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The Committee of the Goldsmith International Literary Festival would like to thank our Funding Agencies for their help in making the event possible.