Other Publications:
Sanas (2007) Poems; Walking Time agus Dánta Eile (2000) Poems; Gaothán (2000) Novel; Fear an Tae (1999) Dráma; Liodán na hAbhann (1999) Dráma; Ar Bhruach na Laoi (1995) Novel; Dialann Bóthair (1992) Poems; Tine Chnámh (1984) Poems; An Seileitleán (2004) Poems; Ar an bPeann (2005) Prose/Essays; Dánta Déanta (2006) Poems.

He is currently working on a new collection of poems as well as New and Selected Poems. He is a member of Aosdána.

Catriona Crowe
Catriona Crowe is Head of Special Projects at the National Archives of Ireland. She is Manager of the Irish Census Online Project, which has placed the 1901 and 1911 censuses online free of charge over the last 4 years. She is an Editor of Documents on Irish Foreign Policy, which published its seventh volume, covering the period 1941-45, in November 2010.
She is Vice-President of the Irish Labour History Society, and a former President of the Women's History Association. She is Chairperson of the Irish Theatre Institute, which promotes and supports Irish theatre and has created an award-winning website of Irish theatre productions.
She is Chairperson of the SAOL Project, a rehabilitation initiative for women with addiction problems, based in the North Inner City, and also Chairperson of the Inner Cirty Renewal Group, which delivers employment and welfare rights advice and support to the community in the North Inner City.
She contributes regularly to the broadcast and print media on cultural and historical matters.

Finbarr Bradley
Finbarr Bradley teaches at the UCD Smurfit Graduate Business School while managing innovation programmes in Irish and international companies. He was a professor of finance at DCU where he set up the innovative Irish-medium centre Fiontar and an undergraduate degree in finance, computing and languages. He is a former chairman of zamano, a high tech start-up founded by Fiontar students, now publicly listed. He was a professor in the Economics Department at NUI Maynooth and a visiting professor at UCD, University of Michigan, Fordham University and the Helsinki School of Economics. He co-authored with James Kennelly the book, Capitalising on Culture, Competing on Difference [Blackhall Publishing, 2008], co-edited with Joe Mulholland a book of essays on Ireland's economic crisis from the MacGill Summer School [Carysfort Press, 2009] and is author of Meol Gaelach, Aigne Nuálaíoch [Coiscéim, 2011]. He has an engineering degree from UCC and a PhD in international finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University (NYU).

Betty Purcell
Betty Purcell is a Series Producer with RTE Television, where she has produced programmes including Questions and Answers, The Late Late Show, Would You Believe, and currently, the arts programme The View. Previously she worked in radio where she produced the first series of Women Today. She has won a Jacobs award for her radio access programme Talkback, and a European Broadcasting Award for her Television development series Divided World. She took the Irish government to the European Court of Human Rights over the issue of Section 31. Between 1995 and 2000 she served on the RTE Authority as the first elected Staff representative to the Board.

Diarmaid Ferriter
Diarmaid Ferriter was born in Dublin in 1972. One of Ireland's leading historians, he was appointed Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD in 2008. His books include the bestsellers The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000 (2004) and Judging Dev: A Reassessment of the life and legacy of Eamon de Valera (2007). His most recent book is Occasions of Sin: Sex and Society in Modern Ireland (2009). A regular broadcaster with RTE radio and television, his three part television history of twentieth century Ireland, The Limits of Liberty, was broadcast on RTE in 2010. He currently presents The History Show on RTE Radio One.

Susan McKay
Susan McKay is the chief executive of the National Women's Council of Ireland, the NGO umbrella group for women's organisations. The Women's Council campaigns for women's equality on behalf of community women's groups, violence against women organisations, women's health campaigns, disability organisations, women in business groups, ethnic minority groups, women in education groups and many others. It is currently focussing on the needs of young women, and on a project to get more women into political power in Ireland.

Prior to joining the Women's Council in 2009, Susan was an award winning author and journalist. Her most recent book, "Bear in Mind These Dead" (Faber, 2007), is a study of the aftermath of the NI conflict for those bereaved. Her previous books include "Without Fear", a history of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, "Northern Protestants, An Unsettled People" and "Sophia's Story", a biography of child abuse survivor, Sophia McColgan.

She was Northern editor of the Sunday Tribune until she left it in 2005, and has also written for the Irish Times and the Irish News among many others. Her awards include one from Amnesty for an investigation of the impact of domestic violence on children. She was one of the founders of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre in the early 1980's and later ran a centre for young unemployed people in Sligo. In 2010, she was named Woman of the Year in Public Life by Irish Tatler magazine. She is a regular contributor to radio and television debates on politics, social issues and the arts. Susan is from Derry.

John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald is a graduate of University College Cork (BA, English and Philosophy), University College Dublin (Diploma, Library and Information Studies) and the University of Wales at Aberystwyth (MPhil).

His career as a professional librarian commenced in Trinity College Dublin Library as Project Manager of the Card Catalogue Computerisation Project. This was followed by positions in the private sector as an R&D Librarian and Documentation Controller in the Electronics Manufacturing (Moog Ltd.) and Pharmaceutical sectors (Schering Plough Inc.) respectively. He has also worked as a Project Manager in the Software industry in the UK (Lysia Ltd.) and as a full time researcher in the Department of Library and Information Studies, University College Dublin. He was awarded the 1986/87 Italian Government/Council of Europe Scholarship, based at the European University Institute, Florence.

He was appointed University Librarian at University College Cork in 1995, having joined UCC in 1990 as Head of Library Automation. He is currently Director of Information Services and University Librarian at UCC holding responsibility for Library, IT Services, Media Services and the Cork University Press. He is heavily involved in national and international library activities. He has served as Chairman of the Consortium of National and University Libraries of Ireland and Chairman of the CHIU (Conference of Heads of Irish Universities) Librarians' Group, and is Chairman of the Cork Archives Institute. He represents University College Cork on a range of local, national and international library committees and regularly acts as a reviewer and evaluator of EU-funded R&D projects on behalf of the European Commission in the area of Digital Libraries. His interests include the application of IT in the Library environment, comparative librarianship, and library building design.

Sinéad Kennedy
Sinéad Kennedy teaches in the Department of English at NUI Maynooth. Her PhD dissertation was on Marxism after Modernism and engaged with issues of modernist writing, urbanism postcolonialism and modernity. Other research and writing interests include marxist cultural theory, political aesthetics, gender and Irish society. She is currently working on a work on women, class and politics in the twenty-first century. She is a member of the Socialist Workers Party and is the press officer for People Before Profit/United Left Alliance.

Piaras Mac Éinrí
Piaras began working at University College Cork in 1988, having served in the Department of Foreign Affairs for eleven years with postings in Brussels, Beirut and Paris. He ran the university's International Education Office for its first five years and in 1997 was appointed Director of the Irish Centre for Migration Studies, where he remained until 2003. Currently he is a lecturer in the Geography Department. He served as a Board member of the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism from 2002 to 2004 and also served as board member of the Immigrant Council of Ireland, Integrating Ireland and Nasc, the Irish immigrant support centre in Cork. He has been involved in a number of major funded research projects in immigration and integration policy in Ireland and has published widely on the topic, including a number of chapters in refereed books, journal articles and official reports for statutory agencies and non governmental organisations. He has broadcast extensively on migration and other matters on several radio and television stations and has contributed to a variety of print and electronic sources

Theo Dorgan
Theo Dorgan is a poet, broadcaster, translator, editor and documentary scriptwriter. His poetry collections include The Ordinary House of Love, Rosa Mundi and Sappho's Daughter. He is the editor of Irish Poetry Since Kavanagh, and co-edited Revising the Rising, The Great Book of Ireland, the anthologyWatching The River Flow and An Leabhar Mór, the Great Book of Gaelic.

His work has been translated into and published in many languages, including a selected poems in Italian, La Casa ai Margini del Mundo, and a Spanish-language edition of Sappho's Daughter, La Hija de Safo. His Jason and The Argonauts, to music by Howard Goodall, was commissioned by and premiered in the Royal Albert Hall in 2004. Sailing for Home, his prose memoir of an Atlantic crossing under sail, was published in late 2004, and his Songs of Earth and Air, translations of the Slovenian poet Barbara Korun, has just been published as part of the European Capital of Culture 2005 Literature programme.

A member of Aosdána, he was a member of The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon from 2003 to 2008. Born in Cork in 1953, he lives in Dublin.

Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill
Born in Lancashire in 1952 to Irish parents, she was brought up in the Dingle Gaeltacht and in Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, and was educated at University College, Cork. Her collections of poetry include An Dealg Droighin (1981), Féar Suaithinseach (1984), Rogha Dánta/Selected Poems (1986, 1988, 1990), Pharaoh's Daughter (1990), Feis (1991), The Astrakhan Cloak (1992), Spíonáin is Róiseanna (1993), In the Heart of Europe: Poems for Bosnia (1998) and Cead Aighnis (2000). The Water Horse appeared with translations by Medbh McGuckian and Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin in 1999, and her work has also frequently been translated by the poets Michael Hartnett, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon and Michael Longley. In 1995, she edited Jumping off Shadows: Selected Contemporary Irish Poets with Greg Delanty, and she has written several children's plays. She received Duais Sheáin Uí Ríordáin in 1982, 1984 and 1990, Duais Na Chomhairle Ealaíne um Filíochta in 1985 and 1988, Gradam an Oireachtais (1984), the Irish American Foundation O'Shaughnessy Award for Poetry (1988), and the American Ireland Fund Literature Prize (1991). She was writer in residence for Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council in 1998, and she taught at New York University, Boston College and Villanova University in the U.S. In 2001 she became Ireland Professor of Poetry.

Gene Kerrigan
Gene Kerrigan was born in Dublin and has been a journalist since the late 1970s - working for Magill Magazine, the Sunday Tribune and the Sunday Independent - writing about politics, crime and show business.

He has authored, or co-authored, seven non-fiction books.

Since 2005 he has had four novels published. At the Irish Book Awards, his third novel, Dark Times in the City, was judged the best crime novel of 2010. It was also shortlisted for the Crime Writer's Association's top award, the Golden Dagger.

Sorcha Fox
Sorcha is from Ballinteer in Dublin. She trained in the Samuel Beckett Centre in Trinity College. She co-founded Hi-Ho productions in 2000 with whom she produced 'The Marriage' the award winning shortcuts film for the Irish Film Board and RTE. She played Rosemary in Dominic Cooke's production of 'Eccentricities of a Nightingale' at the Gate in 2003. She appeared in 'A Christmas Carol' at the Gate Theatre Dublin in 2005 and performed a lead role in Frontier Films' drama documentary 'Fallout' screened in Spring 2006. She works as a voiceover artist and director for Macalla Teoranta. She plays the part of Vanessa Barrett in TG4's soap Ros na Run and currently works as chief storyliner for the series. She appeared in Calypso's new production of Anthony Nielson's play 'The Wonderful World of Dissocia' and most recently in Tall Tales new play; 'Maisy Daly's Rainbow'.

Sorcha co-starred with Donal O'Kelly in his play 'The Hand' which opened the Dublin Theatre Festival in October 2002. In 2004 she directed the award winning 'Jimmy Joyced' a new play by Donal O' Kelly performed for the Bloomsday centenary. In 2005 she performed in Donal's two hander 'The Cambria' about Frederick Douglass' journey to Ireland in 1845, in 2007 'The Cambria' toured the U.S. Now co-director of Donal O'Kelly Productions; Sorcha performed in the sell out run of Donal's latest play 'Vive La' in the Project Theatre in Dublin in Jan 2008.