
Gabriel Byrne
Actor, director, producer, writer.

Mary Kennedy
Writer, television personality and former newscaster.

JP McMahon
JP McMahon is a chef, restaurateur and author. He is culinary director of the EatGalway Restaurant Group.

Caelainn Hogan
Currently based in Dublin writing about inequality, politics and legacy.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa
Writer, poetry and prose

Mary O’Donnell
Novelist, poet, journalist, broadcaster and teacher.

Noelle Brown
Actor, Writer, Director, Facilitator

Abi Daré
Her novel “The Girl with The Louding Voice” won The Bath Novel Award in 2018.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi
Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi is a novelist and short story writer

Sarah Moss
Author of seven novels and a memoir of her year living in Iceland.

Justine Carbery
Justine Carbery is a teacher, author and journalist.

Michelle Dunne
Author, retired soldier, UN peacekeeper & expert in hurry up & wait.

Cathy Kelly
Author of internationally successful women’s fiction

Sara Baume
Award winning writer

Carlo Gébler
Carlo Gébler is an Irish writer, television director, and teacher.

Peter Geoghegan
Writer, broadcaster and editor at openDemocracy.

Mark O’Connell
Author, winner of the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature 2019

Cauvery Madhavan
An Indian born writer living in Ireland who uses her experience of being a migrant in her writing.

Felicity Hayes-McCoy
Writer, Actress

Manchán Magan
Writer and documentary-maker

Siún Ní Dhuinn
RTÉ Digital Coordinator for Irish language content.

Sinéad Ní Uallacháin
Broadcaster with RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta

Áine Ní Bhreisleáin
RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta in Na Doirí Beaga in Donegal

Brit Bennett
Award wining American writer based in Los Angeles

Luke O’Neill
Professor Luke O’Neill is a world-renowned immunologist and Professor of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin.

Conor Kostick
Writer and historian living in Dublin

Siobhán Prendergast.
Siobhán has over two decades’ experience in publishing, a member of CIEP and AFEPI

Eileen Sheehan
Eileen Sheehan, is an Irish poet based in Killarney, County Kerry.

Nicholas McLachlan
Poet, Short-Story Writer

Marie Gethins
Co-editor and Interviews Manager at Splonk

Lisa Nic an Bhreithimh
Flash fiction author in Irish and English. She is Communications and Campaigns Manager with europeanmovement.ie

Deanna O’Connor
Journalist & Editor

Dairena Ni Chinnéide
Scríbhneoir Cónaitheach d’Oidhreacht Chorca Dhuibhne i bpáirt le hEalaíon na Gaeltachta

John Creedon
John Creedon, broadcaster and writer

Anne Applebaum
Staff writer for The Atlantic and a Pulitzer-prize winning historianand a Senior Fellow of International Affairs and Agora Fellow in Residence at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

Emma Dabiri
Emma is a presenter, social historian and writer.