Liam Cagney is a Donegal-born musicologist and writer. He writes on music in places like the Irish Times, the Guardian, Gramophone and the Spectator. Recipient of an Arts Council of Ireland Literature Bursary and shortlisted for the White Review Short Story Prize, Liam is currently completing his first book, an essay collection on techno and Berlin club culture. He teaches … Read More

Caelainn Hogan is a writer and journalist from Dublin. Her first book Republic of Shame investigates the ongoing legacy of the religious-run institutions. She has written for The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, The Guardian, VICE Magazine, Harper’s, The Washington Post, The Dublin Review and more.

Geoff Dyer was born in Cheltenham, England, in 1958. He was educated at the local Grammar School and Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He is currently living in Los Angeles where he is Writer in Residence at USC. He is the author of four novels: Paris Trance, The Search, The Colour of Memory, and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi; a critical study of John Berger, Ways … Read More

John Boyne is the author of thirteen novels for adults, six for younger readers and a collection of short stories. His 2006 novel The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas has sold more than 11 million copies worldwide and has been adapted for cinema, theatre, ballet and opera. His many international bestsellers include The Heart’s Invisible Furies and A Ladder to … Read More

Dr Catherine Farrell graduated from University College Dublin with a BSc in Environmental Biology. Following her keen interest in restoration ecology, her PhD research (based in UCD’s Botany Department) focused on vegetation ecology and practical measures to restore industrial cutaway Atlantic blanket bog in the west of Ireland. This research then led to a ‘real world’ application and Catherine co-ordinated and … Read More

Lisa McInerney is the author of the novels The Glorious Heresies, The Blood Miracles and The Rules of Revelation, and is the winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Desmond Elliott Prize and the RSL Encore Award.

Christine Dwyer Hickey was born in Dublin and is a novelist and short story writer. Her 2019 novel The Narrow Land won two major prizes: the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the inaugural Dalkey Literary Award. Her novel Tatty was chosen for UNESCO’s Dublin One City One Book project. Her work has been widely translated into European and … Read More

Mark O’Connell is the author of To Be a Machine, which was awarded the 2019 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature, the 2018 Wellcome Book Prize, and was shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. He is a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Slate, and The Guardian. He lives in Dublin with his family.”

Patrick Freyne spent most of his twenties trying to be a rock star before turning to the much more stable and secure world of journalism. He is a feature writer with the Irish Times and has had short stories and essays published in Harpers, the Financial Times Magazine, The Dublin Review, Banshee and Winter Papers. His book of essays, OK, … Read More

Lisa Fingleton is an ecosocial artist, filmmaker, writer and grower. Living and working on a small organic farm near the sea in Kerry, she has spent many years cultivating deep-rooted connections between art, food and farming. Her book The Local Food Project explores the power of growing and eating local food. Lisa is concerned about the fact that we are … Read More