Marina Carr’s plays to date are Ullaloo, 1989; Low in the Dark, 1991; The Mai, 1994; Portia Couhglan, 1996; By the Bog of Cats, 1998; On Raftery's Hill, 1999; Ariel, 2000; Woman and Scarecrow, 2004; The Cordelia Dream, 2006; Marble, 2007; 16 Possible Glimpses, 2009.  Her two plays for children are Meat and Salt, 2003 and The Giant Blue Hand, 2004.  The RSC produced the world premiere of her reimagining of Hecuba at the Swan Theatre

John Banville was born in Wexford, Ireland, in 1945, the youngest of three siblings. He was educated at Christian Brothers schools and St Peter’s College, Wexford. After college John worked as a clerk for Ireland’s national airline, Aer Lingus, before joining The Irish Press as a sub-editor in 1969. Continuing with journalism for over thirty years, John was Literary Editor at The Irish Times from 1988 to 1999. 

Fran O'Rourke is an Irish singer who specialises in the songs of James Joyce. A philosopher by trade and Professor Emeritus of the School of Philosophy, University College Dublin, he also has a vibrant interest in Joyce and has performed the writer's songs on many occasions, solo and together with guitarist John Feeley. They have also recorded the album JoyceSong - Irish Songs of James Joyce together. Most recently, in September 2017, Fran gave a recital for the Irish embassy in Moscow.

William Wall is a novelist, poet and short story writer. He is the author of six novels, four collections of poetry and three of short fiction. His work concerns itself with political and social themes – class in Ireland, the family, corruption, the urban/rural divide – as well as personal themes of love, loss and suffering. He is, perhaps, best known for his  striking prose, his writing of complex female characters and his long commitment to representing the complexity, internal tensions and destructive forces inherent in the nuclear family in Ireland.

Rosemary Jenkinson was born in Belfast and is a playwright and short story writer. She has taught English in Athens, Nancy, Prague and Warsaw. Her plays include The Bonefire (winner of the 2006 Stewart Parker BBC Radio Award), Johnny Meister + The Stitch, Basra Boy, White Star of the North, Planet Belfast, Here Comes the Night, Michelle and Arlene, May the Road Rise Up and Lives in Translation.

Biddy Jenkinson writes, when she can; gardens, paints and whistles( badly) when she can't. She lives, when possible, in a house, on a hill in Wicklow. The surrounding field is filled with plants and shrubs, to suit bees - bumble bees in particular - and birds.

Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Her work often explores silence and power dynamics in the context of Irish landscape, history and the State. Her books include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017), Town (The Salvage Press, 2018) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, 2021).