Finn holds a BSc in Earth & Ocean Science and an MSc in Marine Biology. She works with the Irish Whale & Dolphin Group and is an ambassador for Clean Coasts and for Volvo’s electric xc40. She is also an environmental representative for several working groups related to inshore fishing and the renewable energy sector. Through her Instagram account @saltwaterstories.me … Read More

Eoghan Daltun is a sculpture conservator, a High Nature Value farmer and, above all, a rewilder. Originally from Dublin, since 2009 he has lived with his two sons, Liam and Seánie, on their 73-acre farm near Eyeries on the Beara Peninsula, West Cork.

Edmund de Waal is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer, best known for his large-scale installations of porcelain vessels, often created in response to collections and archives or the history of a particular place. His interventions have been made for diverse spaces and museums worldwide, including Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire; the Musée Nissim de Camondo, Paris; The British Museum, London; The … Read More

Dylan Moran is a comedian, actor and writer who in 1996 won the Perrier Award, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Black Books, the Channel 4 hit sitcom that he co-wrote and starred-in, won him two BAFTAs, and he has since won numerous prizes and accolades for his television work and live-shows. Moran merges two strands of stand-up: sharp observational humor, and … Read More

Colin Greenwood is the bassist of Radiohead. He reviews non-fiction for The Spectator and has recently been working with Belgian/Egyptian singer-songwriter Tamino. Greenwood read English at Peterhouse College, Cambridge before Radiohead’s international hit ‘Creep’ was released, from one of the defining albums of the Britpop era, The Bends, before releasing OK Computer. Their reinvention at the turn of the millennium … Read More

Carole Cadwalladr is a renowned Pulitzer-nominated journalist for the Guardian, feature writer for the Observer, and Cambridge Analytica investigator. She formerly worked at The Daily Telegraph, and was nominated for numerous Press Awards. Cadwalladr was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for National Reporting in 2019, receiving praise upon her investigation and coverage into Cambridge Analytica and its role in Brexit. Cadwalladr’s sheer … Read More

Caoilinn Hughes’ second novel, The Wild Laughter (2020) won the Encore Award 2021, was longlisted for the 2021 Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize, and was shortlisted for the Dalkey Emerging Writer Literary Award, the An Post Irish Novel of the Year 2020 and the RTÉ Radio 1 Listeners’ Choice Award. Her first novel, Orchid & the Wasp (2018), won the Collyer Bristow Prize 2019, … Read More

Bill Whelan has composed music for theatre, film and orchestra. His 1997 Grammy Award winning music Riverdance continues to be performed around the world and the show is about to embark on a 25th anniversary tour of the United States, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom.  To date, 22 million people have seen Riverdance The Show live. To coincide with … Read More

Andrew Small is a senior transatlantic fellow with the Asia program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. His research focuses on U.S.-China relations, Europe-China relations, and broader developments in Chinese foreign and economic policy. He previously worked as the director of the Foreign Policy Centre’s Beijing office; as a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations, … Read More

Amaia Elizaran (1992, Tolosa, Gipuzkoa) is a Basque dancer and choreographer that has created five original contemporary dance pieces -Raw (2016), Pool (2017), Block (2018), Mar (2019), Out (2020)- and has participated in different cultural projects over the last ten years. Elizaran began her classic dance training at the Ekintza school. In 2008, after receiving a grant from the Gipuzkoa … Read More