Olivia O’Leary is a journalist and broadcaster.  She has presented current affairs programmes for RTE, BBC and ITV. In recent years she presented RTE Radio One’s ‘The Poetry Programme’.  The O’Brien Press  has published two collections of her radio columns for RTE’s Drivetime-‘Politicians and Other Animals’ , and ‘Party Animals’.  She has won three Jacob’s awards for her work with … Read More

Patrick Freyne is a features writer with the Irish Times. He has had essays published in The Financial Times Magazine, The Dublin Review and Harpers. And he has had short stories published in Banshee, Winter Papers and The Art of the Glimpse. His collection of memoir essays, OK, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea, was published by Penguin Sandycove in 2020. … 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

Mary Robinson is Adjunct Professor for Climate Justice in Trinity College Dublin and Chair of The Elders. She served as President of Ireland from 1990-1997 and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights from 1997-2002. She is a member of the Club of Madrid and the recipient of numerous honours and awards including the Presidential Medal of Freedom from the President … Read More

Emma Dabiri is an Irish-Nigerian   author, academic and broadcaster She spent over a decade as a teaching fellow in the African department at SOAS. She is a final year Visual Sociology PhD researcher at Goldsmiths, and author of the Sunday Times bestseller What White People Can Do Next, Don’t Touch My Hair and Disobedient Bodies . In 2023 she was … Read More

UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was born and grew up in West Yorkshire, England. He is the recipient of numerous prizes and awards, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and PEN Prize for Translation. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including Magnetic Field: the Marsden Poems, and acclaimed medieval translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight … Read More

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

Following on from The Man in the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, both of which enjoyed both critical and popular acclaim at previous outings in Ireland, London and New York, Mikel Murfi now brings his new show The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey on tour throughout Ireland.  This new piece, the third in the series, finishes out … Read More

Anthony Horowitz is one of the most prolific writers in the UK, unique in that he works across so many genres including more than fifty novels, TV series as well as films, plays and journalism. Anthony books include the Alex Rider series which has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and has been adapted into a hugely successful television series … Read More

Roy Foster is Emeritus Professor of Irish History at Oxford and a well known cultural commentator and critic. His many prizewinning books include Modern Ireland 1600-1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, The Irish Story: telling tales and making it up in Ireland, the two-volume authorised biography of W.B.Yeats, Vivid Faces: the revolutionary generation in Ireland 1890-1923 and On Seamus Heaney. A … Read More