Luke O’Neill is Professor of Biochemistry in the School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is a world expert on innate immunity and inflammation. He is listed by Thompson Reuters/ Clarivates in the top 1% of immunologists in the world. Professor O’Neill is co-founder of Sitryx, which aims to develop new medicines … Read More

Liz Nugent is a writer of award-winning psychological suspense novels Unravelling Oliver (2014), Lying in Wait (2016), Skin Deep (2018), [Our] Little Cruelties (2020) and Strange Sally Diamond (2023). All five books topped the Irish bestsellers list and Liz has won multiple literary awards. Some of her books have also been optioned for screen adaptations. Liz’s books have been translated … Read More

Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan has been a consultant in neurology since 2004, first working at the Royal London Hospital and now as a consultant in clinical neurophysiology and neurology at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. She specializes in the investigation of complex epilepsy and also has an active interest in psychogenic disorders. Suzanne’s first book, It’s All in Your … Read More

John Banville was born in Wexford in 1945. He was educated at Christian Brothers schools and St Peter’s College in Wexford. He worked in journalism for many years, first on The Irish Press and later The Irish Times, where he was Literary Editor from 1988 to 2000. His novels include Birchwood, Kepler, The Book of Evidence and The Sea, which was awarded the Man … Read More

Mary Fitzgerald is a writer and consultant specialising in the Euro-Mediterranean region with a particular focus on Libya. She has worked on Libya for more than a decade as a journalist and researcher and lived there in 2014. Her writing has appeared in publications including the Economist, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, the Guardian, … Read More

Turtle Bunbury is a historian who brings the past to life through podcasts, public exhibitions, social media, and books such as ‘The Irish Diaspora’, ‘Ireland’s Forgotten Past’ and the award-winning ‘Vanishing Ireland’ project. turtlebunbury.com

Rob Doyle is the author of three internationally acclaimed books, all published by Bloomsbury: Threshold, This Is the Ritual, and Here Are the Young Men, which has been adapted for film. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, Observer, TLS, Dublin Review, and many other publications, and his work has been translated into several languages. He is the … Read More

Marian Keyes is the international bestselling author of fourteen novels including Watermelon, Rachel’s Holiday, Sushi for Beginners, This Charming Man, and The Break. With a chatty conversational style and whimsical Irish humour, but themes including alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement, and domestic violence her novels have sold over 40 million copies worldwide and been translated into 36 languages.  Her latest novel, Grown Ups, was published … Read More

President Michael D. Higgins secured the largest number of votes in Irish presidential election history in 2018. He is an academic and poet, as well as a public representative, pioneering prior Minister for the Arts and founder of the Irish television channel, TG4. The President has also campaigned worldwide for human rights and climate sustainability.

Dr Mary McGill is a media studies lecturer, journalist and author. Her first book, The Visibility Trap: Sexism, Surveillance and Social Media, was published in July 2021 by New Island Books.