Lecture on Richard Hayward to take place at Longford Family Centre
County Longford Historical Society’s next lecture will take place at 8 pm on Tuesday, 25 April, in the Family Centre, St Mel’s Road, Longford.
Writer and broadcaster, Paul Clements will speak about the writer Richard Hayward (1892-1964).
Hayward was a writer, singer and actor, who was well-know all over Ireland in the middle of the last century. One of his travel books is Where the River Shannon flows (1940), in which he described a journey along the length of the river.
A journalist, author and broadcaster, Paul Clements has written five travel books and a biography of Richard Hayward, adapted for BBC television. He is also the author of a very recent biography of the Welsh historian Jan Morris.