Manchán Magan has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America. He writes occasionally for The Irish Times, and presents the Almanac of Ireland podcast for RTÉ. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ, & Travel Channel. His books include Thirty-Two Words For Field, Listen to the Land Speak, Tree … Read More

Kevin Barry is the author of four novels, including most recently The Heart in Winter, and three short story collections. He also works as a playwright and screenwriter. He lives in County Sligo.

Janine di Giovanni is the Executive Director/CEO of The Reckoning Project, a war crimes unit in Ukraine that documents atrocities and helps build cases for international mechanisms. She is also the Tom and Andi Bernstein Visiting Fellow for Human Rights at Yale Law School, Schell Center for Human Rights. She is also an  award-winning war reporter and the author of … Read More

Jane Wellesley, writer and producer, is the author of Blue Eyes and a Wild Spirit: A Life of Dorothy Wellesley, a book about her grandmother the poet. Her first book, Wellington: A Journey Through My Family, was published in 2008, and re-issued in 2015 for the bicentenary of the Battle of Waterloo. Before a long career in the television and … 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

Deborah Levy is the author of the living autobiographies, Things I Don’t Want to Know, The Cost of Living and Real Estate — for which she was awarded the Prix Femina Etranger in France and The Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose in the USA. Her novels include the Booker Prize listed, The Man Who Saw Everything, Hot Milk and … Read More

Colm Tóibín was born in Enniscorthy in 1955. He is the author of 11 novels including The Master, Brooklyn, The Testament of Mary, Nora Webster, House of Names and The Magician. His work has been shortlisted for The Booker Prize three times, has won the Costa Novel Award and the IMPAC Award. He has also published two collections of stories … Read More

Claire Kilroy is the author of five novels, All Summer, (Faber, 2003), Tenderwire, (Faber, 2006), All Names Have Been Changed, (Faber, 2009), and The Devil I Know (Faber, 2012). In 2023, after an eleven year silence, her fifth novel, Soldier Sailor, about the early years of motherhood, was published to universal acclaim.  It was named a Best Book of 2023 by The Sunday Times, The Irish … Read More

Over a long career in national and international print, online and broadcast media, Isabel Hilton has covered global politics, conflict, development, human rights, climate change and environmental degradation. In recent years her work has focussed on the impacts of a rising China with particular emphasis on climate change and China’s global environmental footprint. In addition to her writing career, she … Read More