Tom Dunne is an Irish radio broadcaster with Newstalk, and a singer/songwriter with the band Something Happens.
Alan is an Irish multi instrumentalist who currently plays with RTE’s Late Late Show House Band, Sharon Shannon, Something Happens, Tradalac, Tom Dunne & Fiachna O Braonain, Frances Black & more. Alan has toured extensively all over the world including the USA, Australia, Asia, The Middle East, Canada, The Caribbean & all over Europe. He has also performed with artists … Read More
Having scaled the heights of telemarketing and temping, David O’Doherty first stepped on stage at Dublin’s Comedy Cellar in 1998. In 1999 he won the Channel 4’s ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ award for new comedians and was runner up in the BBC New Comedy Awards. His first full show ‘The Story of the Boy Who Saved Comedy’ was performed … Read More
Christopher Reid has written many books of poems, for both adults and children, and for most of the 1990s he was poetry editor at the London publishing house of Faber and Faber. Among his works are A Scattering, which addressed the loss of his first wife and was named Costa Book of the Year for 2009, and The Song of … Read More
After completing a degree in Journalism and Media Communications, Cecelia wrote her first novel at 21 years old. Her debut novel, PS I Love You was published in January 2004, and was followed by Where Rainbows End (aka Love, Rosie) in November 2004. Both novels were adapted to films; PS I Love You starred Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler, and … Read More
Catherine Heaney has worked as journalist and editor in Dublin and London for over 20 years, and is a contributing editor to The Week and The Gloss magazines. Since 2017, she has been a director of the Estate of Seamus Heaney, working with publishers, cultural organisations and universities in Ireland and beyond to preserve and promote her father’s work and … Read More
Emma Ward is a 21 year old Irish Traveller wheelchair user, she is a journalist who is hoping to change the medias perception of both the Irish Traveller and disabled communities. Emma is also a disability rights activist and a content creator
2022 RTÉ Radio One Folk Awards – Best Album 2021 RTÉ Radio One Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track, Best Folk Group 2019 RTÉ Radio One Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track, Best Group, and Best Album 2019 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track 2019 RTÉ Radio One Folk Awards – Best Traditional Track, Best Group, Best … Read More
TOM HOLLAND is an award-winning historian and broadcaster. His most recent book, Pax, covers the heyday of the Roman Empire. He is co-presenter of the world’s most downloaded history podcast, The Rest is History. He has written and presented several TV documentaries, on subjects ranging from ISIS to dinosaurs.
Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University. His book, The Silk Roads: A New History of the World was described as ‘magnificent’ (Sunday Times) ‘ dazzling’ (Guardian), ‘a rare book that makes you question your assumptions about the world’ (Wall St Journal), ‘a treasure’ (Libre Belgique), ‘phenomenal’ (Die Welt), ‘a joy’ (Le Point) and ‘not just the … Read More
