Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ International Editor and the author of I Brought The War with Me; Stories and Poems from the Front Line. She has covered the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo and Rwanda, winning several awards. Most recently she has reported on the wars in Gaza, Lebanon and … Read More

Christine Dwyer Hickey was born in Dublin and is a novelist and short story writer. Her 2019 novel The Narrow Land won two major prizes: the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the inaugural Dalkey Literary Award. Her novel Tatty was chosen for UNESCO’s Dublin One City One Book project. Her work has been widely translated into European and … Read More

Patrick Freyne spent most of his twenties trying to be a rock star before turning to the much more stable and secure world of journalism. He is a feature writer with the Irish Times and has had short stories and essays published in Harpers, the Financial Times Magazine, The Dublin Review, Banshee and Winter Papers. His book of essays, OK, … Read More

Kirsty Lang is a journalist and broadcaster. She presents Round Britain Quiz and Last Word on BBC Radio 4. She was a News presenter for Channel 4 and a foreign correspondent for the Sunday Times. Kirsty is best known as an arts journalist having presented BBC Radio 4’s flagship arts and culture programme Front Row. She is a regular contributor … Read More

Alex Clark is a journalist and broadcaster, often seen in the pages of the Guardian, the Observer and the TLS, and heard on BBC R4 programmes such as Front Row and Open Book. An experienced chair of live events, she has worked as an artistic director at the Bath Festival and is a Patron of the Cambridge Literary Festival. She … Read More

Róisín Ingle is a features writer and lifestyle columnist with The Irish Times. She has published two collections of her columns and is co-host of the popular Women’s Podcast. She lives in Dublin’s north-inner city with her husband and twin daughters.

Paul Murray is a Dublin writer with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of East Anglia. His first novel An Evening of Long Gooodbyes (2003) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Award, The Mark and the Void (2015) won the Wodehouse Prize, Skippy Dies (2010) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa Book Award, … Read More

Paul Howard is an author, playwright and screenwriter. He is best known for creating rugby jock Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, who has been the subject of 24 novels and sold more than 1.5 million copies in Ireland. He was part of the writing team behind the BAFTA- and IFTA-winning TV show, Bad Sisters. Winner of a record five Irish Book Awards and … Read More

Fiddle player Martin Hayes is one of the most significant talents to emerge in Irish traditional music. He is the founder of the musical supergroup The Gloaming, The Common Ground Ensemble, and the Martin Hayes Quartet. He is the artistic director of Masters of Tradition and a co-curator for the Marble Sessions at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. His autobiography Shared … Read More

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, and … Read More