Code of Behaviour are an Irish brass band based in Cork City. Their style is a blend of street jazz, jump-around pop and enough madness to make every moment a party. The set consists of their own arrangements of modern covers, traditional New Orleans standards, and original tunes. Set up in September 2017, they made their debut busking on the … Read More

Clair Wills is a critic and cultural historian. She is the author of Lovers and Strangers: An Immigrant History of Post-War Britain, which won the Irish Times International Non-Fiction Book of the Year and was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, That Neutral Island: A History of Ireland During the Second World War, which won the PEN Hessell-Tiltman History Prize, Dublin … Read More

Photographer Chris Floyd’s career came into bloom during the heights of Britpop in the mid-90s and has since become one of the most respected portrait photographers in the world. He has had work published in Vogue, GQ, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, among many others, capturing subjects such as Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, David Bowie, Bill Murray, Vivienne Westwood, David … Read More

Catherine Prasifka is the author of None of This Is Serious (2022, Canongate) and This Is How You Remember It (2024, Canongate). She was shortlisted for Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards in 2022. She is currently the Writer-in-Residence for Maynooth University and Kildare Libraries. The Guardian has described her work on the lives of young people … Read More

Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954, the eldest son of writer parents, Ernest Gébler and Edna O’Brien, and he now lives outside Enniskillen. He is a writer, novelist and occasional broadcaster, most recently ‘Escape from the Maze’, a ten-part series for BBC Radio 4 about the 1983 IRA escape from the Maze Prison, which he wrote and presented. … Read More

Bruno Maçães is a Senior Advisor at Flint Global, where he advises some of the world’s leading companies on geopolitics and technology, as well as a foreign correspondent and columnist for the New Statesman. He is a member of the European Council on Foreign Relations and was the Secretary of State for European Affairs in Portugal during the eurozone crisis. … Read More

Bridget Hourican is a journalist and historian who has written for the Irish Times, Time Out and The Dubliner. She is editor of Straight from the Heart: Irish Love Letters and a contributor to the Dictionary of Irish Biography. Her biography of the Romantic poet, James Clarence Mangan, Finding Mangan, the Lives and Afterlives of Ireland’s National Poet, was published … Read More

Bill Buford is an author, editor, occasional broadcaster, and founder of the literary magazine Granta. In 1995, he joined The New Yorker as Fiction & Literary Editor and staff writer, and, for the last two decades, has been writing about food and the people who make it. He is the author of two bestsellers, Heat, about his time in Italian … Read More

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was fifteen at the height of the genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. Beata and her mother escaped in 1994. Her account of this sleepless nightmare, and the chaos of the Rwanda they managed to flee from – The Convoy – was the winner of the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro, the Prix Montluc … Read More

Barbara Demick won the Samuel Johnson Prize for Nothing to Envy (2010), her seminal book on North Korea, which went on to be shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize ‘Winner of Winners’ Award in 2023. She is also the author of Eat the Buddha (2020) which was longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize, and Besieged (2012), her account of the … Read More