James Tierney is the former Attorney General of Maine. Having taught at Columbia and Yale Law Schools he is now a Lecturer in Law at Harvard Law School where he teaches and counsels state and local officials on legal and ethical issues. He maintains an active web presence at stateag.org and is deeply involved in the state based opposition to … Read More

Eoin McNamee is a novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Resurrection Man the Blue Trilogy, The Ultras and The Vogue. He wrote the screenplay for the film Resurrection Man directed by Marc Evans and I Want You directed by Michael Winterbottom. His television credits include Hinterland (BBC Wales/Netflix) An Brontanas (TG4), Vikings Valhalla (Netflix) and he is currently writing the … Read More

Margaret Brown is a documentarian whose work examines the American South. She is known for Be Here to Love Me – her seminal film on Townes Van Zandt, The Great Invisible, which uncovered the lasting impacts of the BP oil spill, and The Order of Myths, which explored Brown’s native Mobile, Alabama and its still segregated Mardi Gras celebration. Her … Read More

BAFTA-winning Molly Dineen is a one of Britain’s most acclaimed contemporary documentary filmmakers, known for her intimate and probing portraits of British individuals and institutions over the last 40 years.

William Kentridge (born Johannesburg 1955) is internationally acclaimed for his drawings, films, theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music, theatre, and collaborative practices to create works of art that are grounded in politics, science, literature and history, yet maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. His work has been seen in museums and galleries around … Read More

Villagers is the music project of Conor O’Brien which began in 2008, but it was his 2010 debut Becoming A Jackal that he truly made a mark, receiving nominations for the Mercury Music Prize and Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year. His latest album, That Golden Time, underlines O’Brien’s commitment to a fusion of folk, pop and rock. … Read More

Una Mannion is a novelist and short story writer based in County Sligo. Her debut novel A Crooked Tree in 2021 won the Kate O’Brien Prize and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards. Her second novel Tell Me What I Am won the Gold Dagger at the CWA Dagger Awards 2024. She teaches creative writing in the Oscar Wilde … Read More

SUZANNE O’SULLIVAN is an Irish neurologist working in Britain. Her first book, Is It All in Your Head?: True Stories of Imaginary Illness, won the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize and the Royal Society of Biology General Book Prize. She lives in London.

Sue Rainsford is an Irish novelist and art writer. She is a recipient of the VAI/DCC Art Writing Award, the Arts Council Literature Bursary Award, a MacDowell Fellowship, the Kate O’Brien Award and le Prix Imaginales Award. Notable commissions include RTÉ Radio 1 and BBC Radio 4, and she has been writer in residence at Maynooth University and UCD. She … Read More

Steven Pinker is Johnstone Professor of Psychology at Harvard, focused on visual cognition, psycholinguistics, and social relations. He is a two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, a Humanist of the Year, a recipient of nine honorary doctorates. His books include The Language Instinct, How the Mind Works, and The Blank Slate. His thirteenth book, due this year, is called When Everyone Knows … Read More