Dylan Moran is a comedian, actor and writer who in 1996 won the Perrier Award, at the Edinburgh Fringe. Black Books, the Channel 4 hit sitcom that he co-wrote and starred-in, won him two BAFTAs, and he has since won numerous prizes and accolades for his television work and live-shows. Moran merges two strands of stand-up: sharp observational humor, and … Read More

Carole Cadwalladr is a British author, investigative journalist, features writer, and one of the founders of the online culture, politics and technology publication The Nerve. She was a features writer for The Observer and formerly worked at The Daily Telegraph.Cadwalladr rose to international prominence in 2018 for her role in exposing the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal, for which she was a … Read More

Patrick Radden Keefe is an award-winning staff writer at The New Yorker and author of the New York Times bestsellers Rogues, Empire of Pain and Say Nothing, as well as two earlier nonfiction books: The Snakehead and Chatter. Patrick started contributing to The New Yorker in 2006. He received the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing in 2014. Say Nothing … Read More

Michael Keegan-Dolan was the artistic director of Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre from 1997 to 2015. He founded Teaċ Daṁsa in 2016 and now lives in the Corca Dhuibhne Gaeltacht with his partner Rachel Poirier and their two children. Swan Lake / Loch na hEala, the first production he created for Teaċ Daṁsa has toured extensively both nationally and internationally. MÁM, the second … Read More

Margaret MacMillan is emeritus Professor of History at the University of Toronto and emeritus Professor of International History and the former Warden of St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford.  Her books include Women of the Raj (1988, 2007); Paris 1919: Six Months that Changed the World (2001, 2002); Nixon in China: Six Days that Changed the World (2006, … Read More

Jim Sheridan (born 6 February 1949) is an Irish playwright, screenwriter, film director, and film producer. Between 1989 and 1993, Sheridan directed two critically acclaimed films set in Ireland, My Left Foot and In the Name of the Father, and later directed the films The Boxer and In America. Sheridan has received six Academy Award nominations. Over a career that … Read More

Kathy Sheridan is a columnist with The Irish Times and is a co-host of The Women’s Podcast.

Olivia O’Leary is a journalist and broadcaster.  She has presented current affairs programmes for RTE, BBC and ITV. In recent years she presented RTE Radio One’s ‘The Poetry Programme’.  The O’Brien Press has published two collections of her radio columns for RTE’s Drivetime – ‘Politicians and Other Animals’, and ‘Party Animals’.  She has won three Jacob’s awards for her work … 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 has had short stories and essays published in The Dublin Review, Harpers, the FT Magazine and Winter Papers and is a features writer at the Irish Times. His book of essays, OK, Let’s Do Your … Read More

Liz Nugent is a writer of award-winning psychological suspense novels Unravelling Oliver (2014), Lying in Wait (2016), Skin Deep (2018), [Our] Little Cruelties (2020) and Strange Sally Diamond (2023). All five books topped the Irish bestsellers list and Liz has won multiple literary awards. Some of her books have also been optioned for screen adaptations. Liz’s books have been translated … Read More