Caoilfhionn Gallagher KC is one of the world’s leading human rights lawyers. Over the past 25 years she has acted in many landmark cases in the UK, Europe and internationally, including representing bereaved families of the Hillsborough Disaster and the 7/7 London Bombings, and in test cases which have changed laws on children’s rights, for survivors of abuse, and on … Read More

Anna Edith Fitzgerald was born in Dublin where she grew up and was educated. She studied for an Arts degree in Trinity College. Having spent some time in the United States, she returned to Ireland where she settled with her family. Her first novel, Girl in the Making was published by Penguin in 2024. Set in the suburbs of 1960s … Read More

Andrew Cockburn, born in London and raised in Youghal, Co. Cork, lives in the U.S. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, including Kill Chain – Drones and the Rise of the High Tech Assassins, Spoils of War – Power, Profit and the American War Machine and, most recently, Washington is Burning – Corruption and Lies in the … Read More

Seán McCabe is Head of Climate Justice and Sustainability at Bohemian Football Club. His career has bridged grassroots action and international advocacy to address injustice and marginalisation. He has worked on shaping multilateral climate policy with the Mary Robinson Foundation, strengthening environmental protections in Sierra Leone, advancing children’s environmental rights with UNICEF and the UNCRC, and developing “The People’s Transition” … Read More

Dr. Sonali Deraniyagala is an economist and memoirist. She is on the faculty of the Department of Economics of SOAS, University of London and is Visiting Professor at Columbia University, New York. Her academic work focuses on the macroeconomics of poverty and inequality and on the political economy of climate shocks. Her most recent publication is (with John Mutter) Disasters … Read More

Emerging from the Comeragh’s of County Waterford in Ireland, four brothers – Tommy, Danny, Sean, and Stephen Dunford – form the heart of the brand-new trad. fusion band, The Wran. Inspired by the likes of Moving Hearts, Lankum, Planxty, and Mary Wallopers, The Wran infuse traditional Irish tunes with a punkish attitude and a psychedelic edge; intense and furious and … Read More

Selma Dabbagh is a British-Palestinian writer and lawyer. Selma’s debut novel Out of It (Bloomsbury,) is set between Gaza, London and the Gulf. Her fiction includes short stories, radio plays as well as productions for stage and screen including working on the script for Oscar shortlisted film, Palestine 36. She is the editor of We Wrote In Symbols; Love and … Read More

Paul Kingsnorth is a novelist, poet and essayist living in County Galway. He is the author of ten books, including the Booker Prize-nominated novel The Wake. His latest book is Against The Machine, a New York Times bestseller.

Pádraig Ó Tuama (b. 1975, Ireland) is a poet with interests in language, violence, power, and religion. He is the host of On Being’s Poetry Unbound and has published volumes of poetry, essays, a memoir and theology. 2025 saw the publication of the poetry collection Kitchen Hymns and the anthology 44 Poems on Being with Each Other; A Poetry Unbound … Read More

Mary Gaitskill was born in Lexington KY and grew up in the Detroit area of Michigan. She left home at the age of 16 eventually traveling to Canada where she lived illegally with a fake ID. At 19 she realized that if she wanted to become a writer she needed more education and so returned to America to attend community … Read More