Alex Clark is a journalist and broadcaster, often seen in the pages of the Guardian, the Observer and the Times Literary Supplement, and heard on BBC R4 programmes such as Front Row and Open Book. An experienced chair of live events, she has also worked as an artistic director at the Bath Festival and is now a Patron of the Cambridge … Read More

John Kelly presents Mystery Train on RTÉ Radio and The Works Presents on RTÉ Television. He also presents the weekend show Elevation on Sirius XM. His poetry has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. Two collections – Notions (2018) and Space (2022) are published by Dedalus Press.

Richard Ford  is an American author and short story writer. His best-known works are the novel The Sportswriter and its sequels, Independence Day, The Lay of the Land and Let Me Be Frank With You. He has also published the short story collection Rock Springs.  The Sportswriter  (1986), which was a  finalist  for the PEN/Faulkner  Prize and Independence Day  (1995), … Read More

Róisín Ingle is a columnist, features writer and podcaster with The Irish Times. She is the author of two collections of her columns, Pieces of Me(Hachette) and Public Displays of Emotion ( Irish Times Books) and is the co-author of The Daughterhood (Simon and Schuster) with Natasha Fennell which has been published in several languages. Her latest book is My … Read More

“Paul Murray was born in Dublin in 1975. His novel An Evening of Long Goodbyes was shortlisted for the 2003 Whitbread Prize for First Novel. His second novel, Skippy Dies, was long-listed for the 2010 Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, the Irish Book Award and, in the US, the National … Read More

Jason McCue  is an world renowned human rights lawyer, and  a leading international figure in crisis management and resolution. Jason litigates against terrorists, dictators and others who seem above the law, using the legal and judicial system in innovative ways. In 2009, he won a landmark civil case at the high court in Belfast that resulted in a settlement for … Read More

Fintan O’Toole is a columnist with The Irish Times and advising editor of The New York Review of Books. He has been awarded the Robert Silvers Prize for Journalism, the Orwell Prize and the European Press Prize. His most recent book is We Don’t Know Ourselves: A Personal History of Modern Ireland. He is currently working on the official biography of … Read More

There’s a look in his eye, a gleam, a glint, and a hint: the mark of the true believer. A carrier, and a carrier on. It bit deep into Fiachna Ó Braonáin when he was a teenager, the wild wail of the blues guitar and the pulse of rock n’ roll, mixing with the already ingrained DNA of the traditional … Read More

Dorothy Cross  is one of Ireland’s leading international artists. She works with a range of media, which includes sculpture, photography, video, and installation. Central to her work are themes of sexual and cultural identity, personal history, memory, and the gaps between the conscious and subconscious. Her work came to mainstream public attention with her solo show  Ebb  at the Douglas … Read More

Claire Keegan’s stories are translated into thirty languages. Antarctica won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature. Walk the Blue Fields won the Edge Hill Prize, awarded to the best collection of stories published in the British Isles. Foster won the Davy Byrnes Award, one of the richest literary prizes in the world, and was last year chosen by The Times … Read More