Vincent Doumeizel is Senior Adviser on the oceans to the United Nations Global Compact as well as director of the Food Programme at the Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Vincent devotes his time to promoting environmental solutions based on sea resources, especially seaweed.

Seamas Hyland, native of west Waterford is a multi instrumentalist, set dancer and singer. He is currently based in Dublin and is working to release a solo button accordion album in 2023. He plays in a duet project with banjo player Paddy Cummins and is a full-time member of the Mary Wallopers. He tours extensively with them throughout the U.S, … Read More

Rosaleen McDonagh is an activist, playwright and Traveller woman with a disability from cerebral palsy. She is the fourth in a family of twenty children. She holds a BA, two MPhils from Trinity College Dublin and a PhD from Northumbria University. She is a board member of Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre and was appointed a Human Rights Commissioner … Read More

Rachael Lavelle is a Dublin born singer and composer who captivates audiences with her arresting voice and humorous observations on existence. Merging classical and contemporary influences, her hypnotic live performances blend electronic soundscapes with spoken word and acrobatic vocals. Since the release of her track ‘Perpetual Party’, she has opened for Villagers, toured with City Slang’s Anna B Savage, and … Read More

Perry Ogden is a fashion and documentary photographer, and film director, based in Dublin. Ogden has published three books of photography, Pony Kids, 7 Reece Mews: Francis Bacon’s Studio and Paddy and Liam. He wrote and directed Pavee Lackeen.

Paul McMahon pursued a career in finance and environmental policy and has written Feeding Frenzy: The New Politics of Food and Island of Woods: How Ireland Lost its Forests and How to Get them Back. He is the co-founder of SLM Partners, a business that invests in sustainable agriculture and forestry across the world.

Osman Yousefzada is a British born artist and writer. His practice revolves around modes of storytelling, merging autobiography with fiction and ritual. His work is concerned with the representation and rupture of the migrational experience and he explores these themes through moving image, installations, text works, sculpture, garment making and performance.

Niamh Bury is a steadily rising star on the Irish folk scene. She has collaborated and shared the stage with acts like Ye Vagabonds, Varo, Myles O’Reilly, Niamh Regan, Cinder Well, and Martin Hayes. In recent years, she has performed at Quiet Lights, Dún Laoghaire Folk Festival, Body & Soul, and St. Patrick’s Festival, captivating audiences with stirring vocals, adept … Read More

NATALIE HAYNES is a writer and broadcaster. She is the author of novels THE AMBER FURY, shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize; THE CHILDREN OF JOCASTA, a feminist retelling of the Oedipus and Antigone stories; A THOUSAND SHIPS (shortlisted for the Women’s Prize), a retelling of the Trojan War from an all-female perspective and STONE BLIND a re-telling of the Medusa … Read More