Authors appearing at Hinterland Festival 2026

Abdallah Ahmad

Abdallah Ahmad is an Arab poet and novelist whose debut poetry collection, Revolution of Words (2024), explores the emotional landscapes of the human experience, where love and loss, longing and hope, are woven into a continuous and resonant tapestry. Written in Arabic, his poetry captures the delicate tension between presence and absence, memory and possibility. He holds both a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Marketing, works and lives with his family in County Meath, Ireland. Drawing inspiration from the rhythms of the Irish countryside, he blends his cultural roots with the spirit of the present, crafting distinctive literary expressions that reflect the depth and uniqueness of his human experience. He is currently working on his first novel, The Temple’s Sacrifices, which will shed light on the darker psychological and lived dimensions of human nature, often shaped and controlled by forces of power and vested interests. An active member of his local community, he participates in several volunteer initiatives across County Meath, reflecting his belief in the importance of cultural dialogue, shared humanity, and meaningful integration.

Alan Bradley

Alan Bradley is a multi award-winning Irish director, writer and actor whose work focuses on contemporary documentary storytelling. In 2024 he won the Young Director Award for Documentary at Cannes and received the Mental Health Champion Award at the Headline Mental Health Media Awards. He has also been named one of Broadcast’s Hotshots 2025 and a ‘One to Watch’ 2024/25 by the TV Foundation UK. His films include the Radharc Award-winning 'Patrick: A Young Traveller Lost', the RTÉ documentary on Seán Boylan, and the critically acclaimed RTÉ/BBC series 'Bad Nanny'. 'Unmasking Samantha Cookes: The Many Lives of a Serial Fraudster' is his debut book.

Alex Dunne

Alex Dunne spends her time dreaming up magical tales and drinking far too much tea. Her first book, The Book of Secrets, won the Eilís Dillon Award for best debut in the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2023 and was nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Writing. It was followed by The Harp of Power.

Brian Dungan

Brían Dungan is the author of the ‘Wintour’s Game’ series of books. He lives in North Dublin with his wife, family and rescue dog, Joey. In 2024 Brían introduced his debut novel Wintour's Game, a time-twisting, action-packed adventure for Alex Rider fans. 

Born in Dublin, Brían splits his time between his family, his day job in film and television and his passion for writing. Having shown early promise by winning an MTV/Ericsson Short Script Award in 1999 and the BBC Tony Doyle Bursary for New Irish Writers in 2002, Brían turned his love of movies into a career. In over twenty years as a camera assistant, Brían has worked on television projects as varied as Game Of Thrones, Line Of Duty, Derry Girls and Black Mirror, done commercials for Calvin Klein and Vodafone (behind the camera) and made Hollywood blockbusters with Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Jim Jarmusch, Martin McDonagh and Sir Ridley Scott. Having laboured on screenplays through much of that time, Brían turned his attention to long-form prose. Wintour’s Game, the first in a three book teen series, was published in August, 2024 with the second part, Wintour’s Fate, following in  autumn 2025 and the final part in the series, Wintour's War, arrives in August 2026!

Brian Fitzgerald

Brian Fitzgerald is an author and illustrator of over 30 children’s picture books. Winner of the International Silent Book Competition at Bologna, The White Raven Award, Gradam Réics Carló and CLÉ, Children’s book of the year Award 2025. His work was added to the US Kindergarten curriculum 2025. Brian lives and works in Dun Laoghaire.

Cabrina Conaty

Cabrina Conaty is a radio presenter, producer, and voiceover artist currently hosting The 11 to 1 Show on LMFM. With a background in acting and a career that spans major national and regional stations—including Today FM, Newstalk, and iRadio—Cabrina brings a professional edge and a captivating energy to the airwaves. A graduate of the Learning Waves talent program, she is recognized as a rising star in Irish media, blending high-quality production with a genuine connection to her audience.

Carlo Gébler

Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin in 1954 and lives outside Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. He is a writer, novelist and occasional broadcaster, most recently Escape from the Maze, a ten-part series for BBC R4 about the 1983 IRA escape from the Maze Prison, which he wrote and presented. His memoir A Cold Eye: Notes from a Shared Island 1989 – 2024 was published in September 2024. In October 2026 New Island will publish No One Tells You, a memoir about the death of his mother, the writer Edna O’Brien. He teaches at the Oscar Wilde Centre for Irish Writing at Trinity College, Dublin, HMP Hydebank and Loughan House Open Centre, a low security prison. He is a member of Aosdána.

Catherine Flynn

Catherine Flynn joined the Department of English at the University of California, Berkeley in 2012. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University’s ‘Introduction to the Humanities Program’ from 2009 to 2012. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from Yale University in 2009 and her B.A. in English and Philosophy from University College Cork in 2000. Previously, she practiced as an architect in Ireland and in Vienna, Austria; she has a B.Arch. from University College Dublin. Catherine works on British and Irish modernist literature in a European avant-garde context. Her book, James Joyce and the Matter of Paris was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019. For the hundred-year anniversary of Ulysses, she put together The Cambridge Centenary Ulysees: the 1922 Text with Essays and Notes,  a facsimile edition of the historic 1922 Shakespeare and Company text, featuring Joyce’s own errata as well as references to later amendments, along with maps, photographs, and footnotes, and an essay by a leading Joyce scholar on each of the eighteen episodes (Cambridge University Press, 2022).  Her edited volume, entitled The New Joyce Studies: Twenty-First Century Critical Revisions was published by Cambridge University Press in September 2022. She is currently working on a monograph on Flann O'Brien/Myles na gCopaleen/Brian O'Nolan and the young Irish State.

Cecelia Hartsell

Cecelia Hartsell is a U.S. historian, specialising in African American history and American social history.  Since moving to Ireland in 2015, she has been a contributor to the RTE History Show on topics in U.S. history and frequently gives U.S. history talks for the Dublin Festival of History and in the Dublin public libraries. She completed all of the requirements save dissertation and language requirement for a PhD in American history at Fordham University and has a Master’s degree in history from University College Dublin.  She has published the following article: ‘The Great American Protest: African Americans and the Great Migration’ in 1916 in Global Context: An Anti-Imperial Moment, Enrico Dal Lago, Róisín Healy, and Gearóid Barry, eds.

Charleen Hurtubise

Charleen Hurtubise is a novelist and artist based in Dublin.  She spent much of her childhood in Michigan, her early adult years in Boston and has now lived half of her life in Ireland, which is home.   Her debut novel, The Polite Act of Drowning (Eriu 2023), was praised for its emotional clarity and its intimate exploration of family, identity, and the quiet tensions of everyday life.  She holds an M.Sc. from Trinity College Dublin and an MFA in Creative Writing from University College Dublin, where she has facilitated creative writing seminars.  Though she lives in Dublin with her family, the pull of Donegal never leaves and continues to influences her drawings and writings, including her latest novel Saoirse (Eriu 2026).

Ciarán Wallace

Ciarán Wallace is Director of the Virtual Record Treasury of Ireland. Having completed his PhD at Trinity College Dublin he lectured in Modern Irish History at universities in Ireland and Britain before joining the research team reconstructing the lost Public Record Office of Ireland. Ciarán has published on Dublin's political and social history, Irish political cartoons and online learning in addition to his recent Four Courts Press publication Meath: the Irish Revolution 1912-23 (2025).

Damian Shiels

Dr. Damian Shiels is a historian and archaeologist. Currently a heritage consultant, his previous positions have included time as a Research Fellow at Northumbria University and a curator at the National Museum of Ireland. The founder of www.irishamericancivilwar.com, he has published three books on the Irish in the American Civil War and has written and lectured widely on European emigrants in the Civil War, the impact of the conflict of Irish people and the Irish experience in 19th century America. He is co-host with Fin Dwyer of Transatlantic: An Irish American History Podcast.  

David McCullagh

Broadcaster and historian Dr David McCullagh is probably best known as the anchor the 6.1 News on RTÉ1 TV, as a past presenter of Prime Time and as former RTÉ Political Correspondent and now as presenter of the RTÉ Radio 1 Today programme. David is also an accomplished historian and is biographer of former Taoiseach John A. Costello ( The Reluctant Taoiseach, 2010 ) and Eamon de Valera in De Valera: Rise (2017) and De Valera: Rule (2019). He is also the author of the work for children The Great Irish Politics Book (Gill, 2021). From Crown to Harp: How the Anglo-Irish Treaty Was Undone, 1921 to 1949 (2025) is his latest work.

David Puttnam

A British film producer, educator and environmentalist, Lord David Puttnam is Chair of Atticus Education, an online education company that delivers audio-visual seminars all over the world. David spent thirty years as an independent producer of award-winning films including The Mission, The Killing Fields, Chariots of Fire, Midnight Express, Bugsy Malone and Local Hero. Together these films have won ten Oscars, thirteen Golden Globes, nine Emmys, thirty-one BAFTAs, four David di Donatellos, and the Palme D'Or at Cannes. In 1997, he was appointed to the House of Lords and during his time as a parliamentarian, he agitated unrelentingly in public policy for education, climate change, and the creative industries. In 2019, he was appointed Chair of the House of Lords Select Committee on Democracy & Digital Technologies, which was established to investigate the impact of technologies on democracy. David was awarded a CBE in 1982 and a Knighthood in 1995. He is a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters in France, and has more than 50 honorary degrees from universities worldwide. He was Ireland’s ‘Digital Champion’ from 2012 – 2017 and was granted Irish citizenship in 2022. He retired from the House of Lords in 2021 and now focuses on his work in education.

David Rane

David Rane, an Irish BAFTA-winning producer and founder of Soilsiú Films, has 28 years’ experience making socially-focused documentaries. Highlights include School Life (IDFA, Sundance, distributed by Magnolia Pictures), Young Plato (Irish/Belgian/UK/French coproduction with Eurimages, CPH:DOX, DocNYC, nominated for IDA and BIFA awards, 80 cinema arthouse release Japan 2023), Much Ado About Dying (Best Directing Award IDFA), My Sweet Land (Sheffield DocFest), The Stranger (Locarno), Fairytale of Kathmandu (IDFA, 3 Best Film awards). His work has been released theatrically worldwide, and broadcast on ARTE, ZDF, PBS, BBC, RTBF, TVE and more.

Hanne Phlypo is a Belgian producer and co-founder of Clin d’oeil films, focusing on creative documentaries with social and political impact. Her recent productions include Marching In The Dark (CPH:DOX 2024), Kamay (Visions du Réel 2024), and Draw For Change (Canneséries 2024).

Previous works like Dreaming Walls: Inside the Chelsea Hotel (2022) and Gods Of Molenbeek (2019) have screened at major festivals worldwide.

Ilja Roomans is a producer at Docmakers, an award-winning collective of filmmakers based in Amsterdam. She has over 20 years' experience producing both national and international co-productions. She is a member of the EAVE producers’ network and the documentary branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She is also a member of the board of the Dutch Film Academy. Her recent films include Luuk Bouwman’s The Propagandist (2024), winner of the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Film 2024; Suzanne Raes’ Where Dragons Live (2024); and Rosa Ruth Boesten’s Master of Light (2022), which received three Emmy Award nominations and won numerous festival awards, including the SXSW Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary in 2022.

Dearbhla Mescal

Dearbhla is a retired menber od An Garda Siochana, a mum of three grown-up children, and having lived through cancer and the ups and downs of life, is now finally finding the time to follow her own dreams and enjoy her second act of life, first online and now in print. As Dearbhla says herself, ‘I wrote a book! A little one. It’s about how I find and cultivate joy in the chaos of a life being fully lived. I hope it gives you time to ponder the extraordinary joys to be found in the everyday ordinariness of it all.’

Deirdre Kinahan

Deirdre Kinahan is an award-winning playwright. She is a member of Aosdána, Ireland’s elected organisation of outstanding artists. Deirdre collaborates with artists and theatres all over the world, is literary associate to Meath County Council and has a large canon of regularly produced plays to her credit. Deirdre is published by Nick Hern Books. Best Known Plays include: The Unmanageable Sisters, Rathmines Road, Moment, Halcyon Days, Bogboy, Hue & Cry, Melody, Spinning and her Irish Revolutionary Trilogy Wild Sky, Embargo and Out-rage.Deirdre works predominantly with the Abbey Theatre, Landmark Productions and Fishamble Theatre Company in Ireland but also collaborates with theatres in the UK (Bush, Old Vic, Pentabus, Royal Court), Europe (Stat Theatre Maintz, Ateneum Warsaw) and America (Irish Repertory Theatre NYC, Solas Nua, Irish Arts Centre NYC, Studio Theatre DC, Steep Theatre, Irish Theatre Chicago).

Dermot Bannon

Dermot Bannon is a leading voice in modern Irish architectural design. He has hosted RTÉ’s Room to Improve TV series since 2007, transforming the homes and lives of hundreds of clients. He set up his own practice, Dermot Bannon Architects in 2008. He lives in Drumcondra with his wife and children.

Dermot Bolger

Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland’s best-known writers. His fifteen novels include The Journey Home, The Family on Paradise Pier, An Ark of Light and Hide Away. His eleventh poetry, Other People’s Lives, appeared in 2022.  His recent plays include Last Orders at the Dockside and an adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses, both staged by the Abbey Theatre, and his new collection of stories, Imperfect Beings, is published in May 2026. He made his first pilgrimage to Francis Ledwidge’s cottage in 1979, some years before it became a museum, and in 1998, along with Ledwidge’s nephew, unveiled a monument on the spot where Ledwidge was killed in Flanders. He is the editor of the Selected Poems of Francis Ledwidge which was introduced by Seamus Heaney.

Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Doireann Ní Ghríofa writes books that hopscotch between genres and times. She often spends her days in archives, trying to eavesdrop on the Dead, or writing in her car. Her prose début, ‘A Ghost in the Throat’, was an experimental text blending autofiction, poetry, biography, and essays on literary translation. Written on the rooftop of a free carpark in Cork, it went on to be described as ‘powerful’ (New York Times) and ‘captivatingly original’ (The Guardian), wining the James Tait Black Prize, and Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards. The US edition was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She is also author of seven books of poetry, each a deepening exploration of birth, death, desire, and domesticity. Her latest book is Said the Dead.

Eamon Carr

Eamon Carr is a writer, musician and art historian. Author of Pure Gold: Memorable Conversations with Remarkable People (Merrion Press), Showbusiness with Blood (Lilliput), Foundation Song (Revival Press), Deirdre Unforgive (Doire Press) and The Origami Crow (Seven Towers).

His verse play Dusk received its premier in the GPO, Dublin. His verse drama CúChulainn Awakes was filmed remotely during lockdown.

A founding member of Horslips, he has co-written and recorded numerous albums with the band, including The Táin, current recipient of the RTE Choice Music Prize Classic Album Award, as well as collaborations with The Last Bandits, Henry McCullough & Eamonn Dowd.  He is a former recipient of the Sarah Purser Scholarship and Prize in the History of European Painting from Trinity College, Dublin.

Edel Coffey

Edel Coffey is an Irish journalist and broadcaster. She has worked as a journalist and editor with the Sunday Tribune, and was editor of the Irish Independent Weekend Magazine, and Books Editor of the Irish Independent and Books Editor of The Gloss. She is a regular contributor to The Irish Times. Her debut novel Breaking Point won the An Post Irish Book Award for Crime Fiction Book Of The Year and all three of her novels have been number one bestsellers in Ireland.

In Glass Houses is her third novel.

Eileen Dunne

RTE Newscaster, Eileen Dunne, is the eldest of the late RTÉ GAA correspondent Mick Dunne’s three daughters. Born and raised in Clontarf, Dublin she studied Irish and French at UCD and after a year in France, came back to do a H.Dip (Masters in Education) and begin work as a radio continuity announcer in RTÉ. Eileen joined the RTÉ Newsroom in 1984 and was involved in coverage of all the main news stories from then until her retirement in 2022. She has also presented programmes on RTÉ Lyric FM and on RTÉ Radio 1. A member of the Association of European Journalists, she served as International President from 2010 to 2014 (the first woman to hold the position). She is also currently Chair of the Kennedy Summer school in New Ross. Eileen is married to the actor Macdara Ó Fátharta and they have one son, Cormac.

Emer Cleary

Emer Cleary has always had a passion for storytelling. From a young age, she wrote and illustrated her own "books," declaring in second class that she would one day become a writer. With an Honours Degree in Journalism and Editorial Design, Emer spent a decade in the newspaper and magazine industry in the UK and Ireland. At just 27, she became the youngest female editor of a Johnston Press Group title, overseeing one of its 300 newspapers.

 Inspired by her own experiences, Emer wrote Emilio the Emoo! to encourage children to embrace their individuality and celebrate diversity. She believes that differences are not flaws but what make us extraordinary. Now running her own publishing business, Emer is passionate about fostering young writers’ dreams and guiding schools through the publishing process.

A proud Kells native, she has lived in Dublin for over 20 years. Her favourite place to be is with her husband, Brian, and their three children.

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen are the bestselling Irish writing duo behind the hugely successful Aisling series, a cultural touchstone celebrated for its humour, heart, and affectionate insight into modern Irish life. Friends since their student days, the pair built strong individual careers across Irish media before becoming one of Ireland’s most recognisable literary partnerships.  Sarah Breen established herself as a journalist and editor, working primarily in magazines and contributing to some of Ireland’s leading lifestyle and entertainment publications. Emer McLysaght, meanwhile, worked extensively across journalism, digital media, and radio, and is a regular contributor to Friday edition of the The Irish Times.  Since the publication of Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling (Gill Books & Penguin Books 2017), their novels have topped bestseller lists, won awards, and built a devoted fan base.  This year sees the release of Our Deadly Summer, a novel that captures the essence of the early noughties.

Eoin McGee

Eoin McGee is a household name in Ireland, known for making complex financial topics accessible and engaging through his TV shows, podcasts and media appearances with over 165,000 highly engaged Instagram followers - Eoin brings a ready-made, loyal readership.  Eoin, author of the number one bestseller How to Achieve Financial Freedom, is also the author of the bestselling How to Be Good with Money and How to Make Your Money Work.

Eoin McNamee

Eoin McNamee is a novelist and screenwriter. His nineteen novels include Resurrection Man and the Blue Trilogy. He has written six Young Adult novels including the New York Times bestselling The Navigator, and three thrillers under the John Creed pseudonym.  He wrote the screenplay for the film Resurrection Man directed by Marc Evans and I Want You directed by Michael Winterbottom. His television credits include Hinterland (BBC Wales/Netflix) and An Brontanas (TG4). He has written seven radio plays for BBC R4. He has been longlisted for the Booker prize among other nominations and has won the Imison Prize, the Kerry Fiction Prize and the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. He has taught in Sligo Institute of Technology, Maynooth University and Trinity College. His latest novel is The Bureau.

Eoin O’Brien

Eoin O’Brien has been watching the bees in his garden buzzing busily about for years. As well as writing books, he loves to write songs, play music, paint and draw. He lives in beautiful Finglas in north Dublin and has two fantastic children. His previous books for children, both illustrated by Audrey Dowling, are Flossie McFluff: An Irish Fairy and Flossie McFluff Saves Christmas.

Eoin O’Malley

Eoin is an Associate Professor in political science at the School of Law and Government, Dublin City University, where he teaches politics and public policy. His research specialism is Irish politics and particularly on the position of the Taoiseach and cabinet government in Ireland, though he also does work on the Irish party system, elections and public policy. He has authored over fifty articles in peer-review journals and is co-editor of the standard text on Irish politics: Politics in the Republic of Ireland (7th ed. Routledge). He has written or edited books on Irish politics, Fianna Fáil, media coverage of elections, political opposition, including How Ireland Voted 2024 (Palgrave 2025), a study of the 2024 general election. He is currently working on a trade book on Irish politics in the 1990s.

Fintan Drury

Fintan Drury is an Irish writer and former RTÉ journalist whose work spans politics, culture and social justice. A regular contributor to The Currency, he is known for incisive commentary on public life and leadership. He is the author of See-Saw, a reflection on corporate culture, and most recently Catastrophe: Nakba II, a shortlisted title for the 2025 An Post Irish Book Awards. In this urgent and deeply researched work, Drury examines Israel’s decades-long oppression of Palestinians and the events surrounding October 2023, offering a stark, unflinching account of a people under siege. In early June, Merrion Press will publish Genocide: Sponsoring the Destruction of Palestine by Fintan Drury.  The book shows how Israel uses Iran to camouflage its colonisation of Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. It sets out the evidence that, without Western sponsorship, the genocide could not have happened and argues that accountability can not be deferred.  Novelist Mary Costello says of it, 'From the pen of a rigorous, humane journalist, Genocide is urgent, unapologetic and breathtaking in its knowledge and reach.'

Fintan O’Toole

Whether writing for the Irish Times, the Guardian or engaged in one of his many non-fiction tours de force the range and scope of Fintan O’Toole’s scholarship is startling. He is a critic, historian, controversialist and intellectual. He is as capable of writing a monograph on Richard Brinsley Sheridan or George Bernard Shaw, as he is of eviscerating the corrupt cowboys of the Celtic Tiger. His memoir, We Don’t Know Ourselves was winner of the An Post Irish Book Awards for 2021, was an Irish Times  #1 Bestseller and was cited by the New York Times as one of its books of the year. His collaboration with Sam McBride, For and against a united Ireland was published in 2025.

Frank McNally

Frank McNally has been chief writer of the ‘An Irishman’s Diary’ column in The Irish Times for 20 years. Raised on a farm near Carrickmacross, Frank moved to Dublin to work in the Department of Social Welfare for several years, before deciding to try and break into journalism in his mid-twenties, an age when he should have known better. His highly entertaining daily column often combines self-deprecating personal narratives with literary and historical allusions, as does his best-selling memoir Not Making Hay: The Life and Times of a ‘Diary’ Farmer, published in 2025. Frank is also a proud Monaghan man.

Frank Shouldice

Frank Shouldice works with RTÉ Investigates and recently produced/directed The Psychiatric Care Scandal. He won RTS awards with Girls In Green (2025) and Milking It: Ireland’s Dairy Industry (2024). His investigative radio documentary The Case That Never Was won Prix Europa (2015).He is author of Grandpa the Sniper, which Diarmaid Ferriter called ‘rich, evocative … vivid and absorbing.’ He has written a number of stage plays performed in Dublin, Belfast and Glasgow and toured nationally Six Days, a spoken word performance with cellist Freda Freytag. He wrote/directed award-winning documentary feature films Once We Were Punks (2025) and The Man Who Wanted To Fly (2018).  Beneath the Cedar Tree is his debut novel.

Gerry Daly

Gerry Daly is a children’s author and illustrator. His previous books include Where Are You, Puffling?, Wee Donkey’s Treasure Hunt, Cá Bhfuil Puifín Beag?, Puifín Beag agus an Ubh (translated by Muireann Ní Chíobháin), Puffling and the Egg (shortlisted for an Irish Book Award), It’s Too Dark, Puffling and Puffling and the Stormy Sea written by Erika McGann, and Finn’s First Song. Originally from Wicklow, he lives in Dublin.

Glen Gendzel

A proud San Francisco Bay Area native, Dr. Gendzel earned a B.A. in History from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Ph.D. in History from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught American history at seven universities in five states and has been teaching at San José State University in the heart of Silicon Valley for the past 21 years. Dr. Gendzel has published articles, book chapters, essays, and reviews on diverse subjects ranging from California history, politics, nativism, migration, and mythology to the baseball business, social memory, McCarthyism, and the progressive movement. He is delighted to be back in Kells!

Glenn Patterson

Glenn Patterson is a Belfast‑born novelist, memoirist and screenwriter whose work captures the shifting textures of Northern Irish life. His acclaimed novels include Burning Your Own, Fat Lad, The International, Number 5, The Mill for Grinding Old People Young, and Gull, alongside non‑fiction such as Lapsed Protestant and Backstop Land. His latest book, The Northern Bank Job: The Heist and How They Got Away With It (Head of Zeus, 2025), expands on his BBC podcast to investigate the audacious 2004 robbery and its political afterlives. He is currently a Professor of Creative Writing in the School of Arts, English and Literature and Director of the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast.

Gregory Walls

Gregory Walls is a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin on the Witnessing War, Making Peace project led by Professor Anne Dolan. The project looks at what life in Ireland was like after the decade of revolution up to 1923. His current PhD research looks at crime and violence post-independence. He was also the lead researcher for the National Archives' 1926 Census exhibition.

John Donohoe

Dunsany native John Donohoe is news editor of the Meath Chronicle newspaper, having previously worked in the Longford Leader and Meath Weekender titles. He completed a studies in local history diploma at Maynooth College and has published works on the villages of Dunsany, Dunshaughlin, and Kilmessan, as well as editing commemorative supplements and photography collections for various newspapers. In 2019, he scripted the display boards for 'Dear Dot - Trim, Ireland and the Kennedy Clan', an exhibition on the life and times of Dot Tubridy, organised by Trim Tourism Network.

John Ware

John Ware is an award-winning investigative journalist with over four decades’ experience reporting on security, intelligence, and public accountability. A former BBC Panorama correspondent, he has led major investigations into policing, national security, and state power, including extensive reporting on Northern Ireland.

Katriona O’Sullivan

Katriona O’Sullivan is an award‑winning author, psychologist, and academic whose work has become a compelling force in contemporary Irish writing. A Professor in psychology at Maynooth University, she is widely recognised for her research on digital inclusion and educational equity, shaped by her own experience of poverty and resilience.  Her bestselling memoir Poor became a landmark publication, winning the 2023 An Post Irish Book Award for Biography of the Year and the 2024 British Psychological Society Book Award. In 2024, Poor reached new audiences through its acclaimed stage adaptation at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.  O’Sullivan’s latest work, Hungry, continues her exploration of class, inequality, and the systems that shape everyday life.

Kirsty Wark

Kirsty Wark’s career spans nearly five decades and stands as one of the defining presences in British broadcasting. A Scottish journalist and presenter, she joined the BBC in 1976 and quickly established herself across radio and television, producing and presenting programmes from Good Morning Scotland to Reporting Scotland before moving into network broadcasting. She became the longest‑serving presenter of Newsnight, renowned for her incisive interviews with figures such as Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and Barack Obama.  Alongside political journalism, she has been a prominent voice in arts and culture, presenting documentaries and programmes including The Late Show and Front Row.  Wark has also written two novels, The Legacy of Elizabeth Pringle (2014) and The House by the Loch (2019) and continues to contribute widely to BBC coverage following her departure from Newsnight in 2024. In 2025 Wark was honoured with the BAFTA Fellowship at the 2025 British Academy Television Awards for contributions to British media.

Larry Lamb

Larry Lamb is one of British television’s most recognisable faces.  He achieved widespread fame as Archie Mitchell in EastEnders, delivering one of the soap’s most memorable villainous performances, and later charmed audiences as the warm, slightly exasperated Mick Shipman in the beloved comedy Gavin & Stacey. Beyond television, Lamb has worked extensively in theatre, radio, and documentary.  In recent years, he has also turned his attention to writing, drawing on his life experiences, including his autobiography Mummy’s Boy (Coronet,2012) which explored his early life and his parent’s turbulent relationship and most recently, All Wrapped Up (2025) a behind‑the‑scenes fiction set during a chaotic film shoot. He has recently embarked on a whole new episode to his career and is currently writing poetry with a view to publishing his first collection " From womb to tomb " in 2027.

Liam McNiffe

Dr Liam Mc Niffe is an historian, author, former teacher Eureka Kells, and retired Principal of St. Patrick’s College Cavan. He lectured part-time in Maynooth University History and Education Departments. He also lectures in Art History.  His publications include  A History of the Garda Síochána; Studies in Local History Meath (ed); A History of Williamstown Kells; Pounding Playing Praying; Traveller Genealogy; Roots and Routes on Traveller history and Peter Devlin, Memories (ed).

Liz Nugent

With her debut novel Unravelling Oliver Liz Nugent made a spectacular entrance onto the Irish and international literary stage. She followed it up with Lying In Wait, Skin Deep, Our Little Cruelties and Strange Sally Diamond, which became a global hit, selling in 40+ countries all over the world. She has been long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award three times and has won five Irish Book Awards. Strange Sally Diamond was shortlisted for Crime Novel of the Year at the Harrogate International Crime Writing Festival. All of her books have been number 1 bestsellers. Liz was named Irish Woman of the Year in Literature in 2023 and received the James Joyce medal for Literature from UCD’s Literary & Historical society in 2021.

The Truth about Ruby Cooper, released in March 2026 is her latest work.

Louise Nealon

Louise Nealon is a writer from County Kildare. Her debut novel, Snowflake, was the winner of Newcomer of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards and was chosen for the One Dublin One Book campaign in 2024. She lives in Belfast. Everything that is beautiful is her second novel.

Marie Cassidy

Marie Cassidy was born in Rutherglen, Scotland. She studied medicine at the University of Glasgow. She became a Member of the Royal College of Pathologists in 1985 and qualified as a forensic pathologist the same year, becoming the first woman to hold a full‑time forensic pathology post in the United Kingdom.  Cassidy later served as Professor of Forensic Medicine at the University of Glasgow before moving to Ireland in 1998 to become Deputy State Pathologist.  In January 2004, she succeeded Professor John Harbison as State Pathologist for Ireland, becoming the first woman to hold the role. Cassidy has also worked as a consultant for the United Nations, helping to identify the remains of victims of war crimes in Bosnia.  She retired at the end of 2018 to spend more time on the other passions in her life, her family and writing. Marie is the author of three number one bestselling books: her memoir Beyond the Tape (2020) and novels Body of Truth and Deadly Evidence.

Mary Costello

Mary Costello has published three novels and two short story collections. Her first collection, The China Factory (2012), was nominated for the Guardian First Book Award and the Irish Book Awards. Her novel, Academy Street, won the Irish Novel of the Year and Irish Book of the Year awards in 2014, and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award, the Costa First Novel Prize, and the EU Prize for Literature among others.

Her second novel, The River Capture (2019) was shortlisted for several awards, and her second collection of stories, Barcelona (2024), was an Irish Times bestseller.

Her new novel, A Beautiful Loan, has just been published.

Mary Coughlan

Mary Cloughlan is Ireland’s greatest jazz and blues singer and, according to Hot Press, ‘one of our most openly raw performers’. Her career fast approaching its 40^th year. Born in Shantalla, Galway Mary has made some of the most uncompromising, wholly personal and universal music by any Irish artist. While her roots in jazz and blues—Billie Holliday and Bessie Smith are among her inspirations—she can also turn that amazing voice to pop, rock, folk and chanson (Edith Piaf is also a touchstone).

Matthew Spangler

Matthew Spangler’s highly successful stage adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner has now toured the known world, with stops on London’s West End, the Dubai Opera House, and Gaiety Theatre in Dublin before opening on Broadway. Matthew has hosted numerous ‘adaptation sessions’ at Hinterland over the years, with authors like Zlata Filipovic (Zlata’s Diary), Kevin Barry (Beatlebone), Mary Manning/Sinead O’Brien (Striking Back), and Christy Lefteri (The Beekeeper of Aleppo). The last two have been adapted for stage by Matthew in collaboration with their authors and The Beekeeper of Aleppo toured the UK and Ireland earlier this year.

Michael Harding

Michael Harding is renowned as the best-selling author of a major series of memoirs chronicling ordinary life in Ireland through a time of transformation. He has written 3 award winning novels, and many theatre works including 5 plays for the National Theatre. A member of Aosdana, a newspaper columnist, and a regular guest on television and radio, his storytelling craft is singularly optimistic and visionary.  His 2024 work, I Loved Him From the Day He Died, was an Irish Times bestseller. Midwinter is his latest work.

https://www.michaelharding.ie

Miriam O’Callaghan

Miriam O’Callaghan is one of Ireland’s most enduring and respected broadcasters, known for her authoritative presence across RTÉ television and radio. After early work with the BBC, she was headhunted by RTÉ in 1993 to present Marketplace, an economics and business programme that marked the beginning of her long association with the national broadcaster.  In 1996, she became a central figure on Prime Time, RTÉ’s flagship current affairs programme, where her incisive interviewing style quickly became her hallmark. She later expanded her on‑screen presence with Saturday Night with Miriam, her own summer talk show launched in 2005.  O’Callaghan has also been a significant voice on RTÉ Radio 1, beginning with Miriam Meets… in 2009, later evolving into her weekly live programme Sunday with Miriam. Her versatility has seen her front major national broadcasts, including RTÉ’s coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s 2011 state visit and the 2011 presidential election debate. She also made history as the first woman to present a full episode of The Late Late Show.  In recent years, O’Callaghan turned to memoir with the Number 1 best seller Life, Work, Everything (Penguin, 2025) a candid autobiography reflecting on her career, personal challenges, and family life.

Myles Dungan

Myles Dungan is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who currently presents the weekly RTÉ Radio 1 programme  The History Show. He is an Adjunct Lecturer in the UCD School of History and is the recipient of two Fulbright Awards. He has taught Irish history in UCD, Trinity College and the University of California, Berkeley.  He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin and is the author of more than a dozen books on Irish and American history (including Four Killings, Conspiracy: Irish Political Trials, Irish Voices from the Great War, How the Irish Won the West and Mr. Parnell’s Rottweiler). He is also the author of two works for children, The Great Irish History Book and The Forgettables. His latest work for adults, Land is all that matters: the struggle that shaped Irish history, was published in 2024. His first (solo) crime novel, The Red Branch, set in the Irish community in San Francicso in 1883, was published in October 2025.

www.mylesdungan.com

Neasa Ní Chianáin

Neasa Ní Chianáin is one of Ireland's most established documentary talents. She has directed nine documentaries (five feature-length) and one TV series that have won awards around the world. She specialises in creative documentaries focusing on social issues, particularly the rights of children and marginalised people.

The documentaries include Frank Ned & Busy Lizzie, which sold around the world, including ZDF, ARTE and YLE. Fairytale of Kathmandu world premiered at IDFA 2007 and won 3 Best Documentary/Director awards. The Stranger had its world premiere at the 67th Locarno Film Festival. Her film, In Loco Parentis (aka School Life) premiered in competition at both IDFA 2016 and Sundance 2017. School Life won the Special Jury Prize in the Golden Gate Awards at the San Francisco Film Festival, and the Audience Award at Visions du Réel in Nyon. School Life was nominated for the 2017 European Film Awards, and Neasa was selected as one of ten women directors honoured in Sydney Film Festival's‘Europe! Voices of Women in Film’ programme, co-presented by Screen International and the European Film Promotion Unit. Young Plato played at 70+ festivals, was theatrically released in 7 countries, including a 6-month run in Japan in more than 80 cinemas, won 14 awards, and was nominated for IDA, BIFA, Grierson (shortlist) and Satellite awards in 2023. Neasa's last feature documentary, The Alexander Complex, had its World Premiere at Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2024.

Nicola Pierce

Nicola Pierce is probably best known to Irish readers as a children’s author. Her first novel, the best-selling Spirit of the Titanic, has been reprinted eleven times. This was followed by City of Fate set during World War Two's Battle of Stalingrad. Her 2015 novel Behind the Walls and the 2016 follow-up Kings of the Boyne are both set during the Williamite wars of the 1690s. Nicola then delved into the doomed Sir John Franklin's 1845 expedition to the arctic, in her novel Chasing Ghosts, and, in 2023, she took her readers to Australia during Ireland's Great Famine with In Between Worlds, her novel about the Earl Grey Scheme. In 2024, she appeared on RTE's 'Nationwide' to talk about the statues on O'Connell Street, Dublin, as per her history book, O'Connell Street, the History and Life of Dublin's Iconic Street. Her latest book for adults, Great Irish Wives, won the 2025 An Post Irish History Book of the Year.

Orlaith McBride

Orlaith McBride has been director of the National Archives since 2020. The Director of the National Archives is responsible for the strategic development and operational management of the National Archives.

Prior to this she was Director of the Arts Council/An Chomhairle Ealaíon, the state agency for developing the Arts in Ireland from 2011.

She worked in the arts for many years across a broad range of organisations including Local Authorities, the voluntary sector, education and theatre.

She has been a member of the Governing Authority of Dublin City University, President and Board member of the National Youth Council of Ireland and is currently a member of the Brian Friel Trust, the Irish Manuscripts Commission and the Council of National Cultural Institutions.  She represents Ireland at the European Board of National Archives.

Owen Gilhooly-Miles

Irish baritone Owen Gilhooly-Miles is a graduate of the Royal College of Music and National Opera Studio. He made his Royal Opera House debut singing Fauré Requiem for the Royal Ballet and in 2007 represented Ireland at BBC Cardiff Singer of the World. His operatic performances include Robert in the world premiere of Luke Bedford’s Through His Teeth (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden); Papageno Die Zauberflöte, Guglielmo Così fan tutte, Escamillo Carmen, Figaro The Barber of Seville, Dandini La Cenerentola, Marcello La bohème, Father Hansel and Gretel, and Don Fernando Fidelio (all for Opera Theatre Company); Emilio Il Cappello Di Paglia di Firenze, King Louis XVI The Ghosts of Versailles, Lord Salt The Golden Ticket, Elder Ott Susannah, Tooley The Mines of Sulphur, and Bob The Old Maid and the Thief (all for Wexford Festival Opera); Ivan in Rimsky Korsakov’s Kaschey the Immortal and Bailiff in Sibelius’ The Maiden in the Tower (Buxton International Festival); the title role Don Chisciotte in Sierra Morena for Musikwerkstatt Wien; Malatesta Don Pasquale(English Touring Opera); Albert Werther (Les Azuriales); Eckbert Blond Eckbert and The General Seven Angels (The Opera Group); Capellio I Capuletti e I Montecchi (Grange Park Opera); Dr Falke Die Fledermaus, Schaunard La bohème (Scottish Opera); Count Almaviva Le nozze di Figaro and Figaro The Barber of Seville (Lismore Music Festival); Valentin Faust(Everyman Theatre, Cork); and Mandarin Turandot and Valentin Faust (Opera Ireland). In concert, Owen has performed extensively with both national and international orchestras. With the BBC Symphony Orchestra performances include Berlioz L’enfance du Christ, The Bridegroom in Judith Weir’s The Vanishing Bridegroom and at the BBC Proms Bill Bobstay HMS Pinafore and Konečký Osud. Other appearances include Fauré Requiem (Ulster Orchestra and The Royal Ballet, Covent Garden); Mozart Requiem (Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra); Carmina Burana(Royal Liverpool Philharmonic); Vaughan Williams A Sea Symphony (Tokyo Symphony Orchestra and Philharmonia Orchestra) Mahler Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (London Philharmonic Orchestra; Mendelssohn St Paul (RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra); Haydn Harmoniemesse (Irish Chamber Orchestra); Handel Messiah (Irish Baroque Orchestra); and Verdi Requiem (Cork International Choral Festival). Notable recordings include The Vanishing Bridegroom with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (NMC Recordings); The Aspern Papers with the Ulster Orchestra (Lyriata); James Joyce’s Musical Dublin with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra (RTÉ lyric fm); and Sunlight and Shadow with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra (RTÉ lyric fm). Owen is a qualified Vocal Health First Aider and has a strong passion for training and guiding classical singers. His teaching has at its foundation an holistic approach, with a thorough working knowledge of modern vocal pedagogy. His students continue to emerge on both national and international stages, while continuing his own research and performance schedule.

Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne spent most of his twenties trying to be a rock star (he was a member of the Irish rock band National Prayer Breakfast) before turning to the much more stable and secure world of journalism! He is a features writer for the Irish Times. His memoir OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea was published to great acclaim in 2020. Experts in a Dying Field is his first novel.

Paul Cullen

Paul Cullen is a journalist and the author of four acclaimed nonfiction books. Born in London and raised in Dublin, he studied engineering at Trinity College Dublin before spending five years in Switzerland. On returning to Ireland, he trained in journalism at Dublin City University and joined The Irish Times in 1993, where he reported on health, politics, consumer affairs, international development, and education over a distinguished three-decade career.

He is the author of the best-selling With a Little Help from My Friends, which investigated corruption uncovered by the planning tribunal, and has won numerous awards for his work - including Irish News Journalist of the Year in 2023.

The bestselling memoir, Outsider: A Memoir of Survival, Family Secrets and the Search to Belong, was published by Hachette Ireland in February 2026. His book on the Irish national children's hospital scandal, Billion Dollar Baby will be published later this year.

Paul lives in Dublin with his wife and four children.

Robbyn Swan

Robbyn Swan is the author of five critically acclaimed non-fiction books spanning the worlds of intelligence, politics and crime. She has delivered scoops on FBI Director Hoover's sexuality, Richard Nixon's sabotage of the Vietnam peace talks and White House pill-popping, and Frank Sinatra's links to Mafia “boss of bosses” Lucky Luciano. Her most recent book, A Matter of Honor, written with her husband and long-time collaborator Anthony Summers, rewrote the history of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Summers and Swan have three children and live in County Waterford in a converted ferryman’s house on the River Blackwater.

Roisín O’Donnell

Roisín O’Donnell is a Sunday Times bestselling Irish author. Her debut novel Nesting won the award for Novel of the Year at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2025 and was nominated for the Women’s Prize for Fiction. Her short story collection Wild Quiet was published in 2016 and was shortlisted for the Kate O’Brien Award and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Her short stories have been published in The Stinging Fly, The Irish Times and many other places, and have been broadcast on RTÉ Radio. Nesting has featured on BBC Radio Four, and in the Observer Best New Novelists 2025. Roisín grew up in Sheffield, with family roots in Derry city, and she now lives in Meath.

Ronan McGreevy

Ronan McGreevy is a reporter and videographer with the Irish Times. He is the author of several books on Irish history including, Wherever the Firing Line Extends: Ireland and the Western Front and Great Hatred: The Assassination of Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson MP. He is also the editor of Centenary: Ireland Remembers 1916, the official State volume recalling the commemorations of the Easter Rising of 1916. His latest work, Sean Lemass: the Lost Memoir contains 22 hours of interviews with one of Ireland’s most transformative political leaders.

Rus Bradburd

Rus Bradburd has had an extraordinarily varied career in sport and as a writer. For many years he was a basketball coach at the university and professional level. For two years in early noughties he even coached the Tralee Tigers in the Irish National League, an experience he recorded in his book Paddy on the Hardwood: a Journey in Irish Hoops. More recently he has ventured into academia as a professor of creative writing in New Mexico State University. His five books, most notably All the Dreams We’ve Dreamed, all focus on the intersections of sport, social progress, politics, and race. Rus,who lives in Belfast in the summers, is also an exceptionally average traditional fiddle player.

Sam McBride

Sam McBride is the Northern Ireland Editor of the Belfast Telegraph and Sunday Independent. He also writes on Northern Ireland for The Economist. He is a former political editor of the Belfast News Letter. For and Against a United Ireland is his second book. His first book, Burned: The Inside Story of the ‘Cash-for-Ash’ Scandal and Northern Ireland’s Secretive New Elite, became a Sunday Times bestseller and was shortlisted for the Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize. Sam is a regular broadcaster on Northern Ireland politics. He lives in Belfast with his wife and two young children.

Sandra Scanlon

Sandra Scanlon is Lecturer in American history and Deputy Head in the UCD School of History. Sandra's research focuses on American political culture and its relationship with US foreign policy during and after the Cold War. Her first book, The Pro-War Movement: Domestic Support for the Vietnam War and the Making of Modern American Conservatism, was published by the University of Massachusetts Press in 2013. Her articles have appeared in journals such as the American Historical Review, Passport, and most recently the Cambridge History of the Vietnam War. Sandra completed bachelor's and master's degrees at University College Dublin, and received her doctorate from Cambridge University, where she was the recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship. She has lectured and held fellowships at Oxford University, the University of Sheffield and the London School of Economics. During 2013, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Emory University and returned as a Visiting Associate Professor during 2018-19. Sandra now works on the Iraq War.

Sinéad O'Hart

Sinéad O’Hart lives in the midlands of Ireland with her family. She writes books for children, including: The Eye of the North, The Star-Spun Web, Skyborn, The Time Tider, The Silver Road and Skyborn (all for 8+), the Lola and Larch series, and the Ellora McGee, Trainee Banshee series, both for younger readers. She loves going for walks, autumn weather, getting things in the post, and (of course) reading, writing, and being creative.

Sophie Grenham

Sophie Grenham is a freelance arts journalist from Dublin who spent her formative years in Hong Kong. She has written for a variety of publications including the Irish Times, the Irish Independent, IMAGE and Social and Personal, and currently contributes to the Sunday Times Ireland and the Sunday Independent. Her short story, "14", was published in the inaugural issue of Tír na nÓg magazine.

Stephen Walker

Stephen Walker has covered the politics of Northern Ireland for over thirty years as an award-winning journalist with the BBC. As a documentary maker with Spotlight, and a BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent he covered the Troubles, the Peace Process, the Good Friday Agreement and Brexit. His work has been honoured by the Royal Television Society, the Irish Film and Television Awards and the Association of European Journalists.

He was Northern Ireland Journalist of the Year in 2005 and is the author of five critically acclaimed books. His first book was “Forgotten Soldiers”  published in 2007 which told the story of Irish soldiers executed in World War One. It was shortlisted for the Irish Book of the Year.   In 2011 he wrote “Hide and Seek” about the Kerry priest Monsignor O’Flaherty and his life saving work in Nazi occupied Rome.  In 2015  “Ireland’s Call” was published which told the remarkable stories of Irish sportsmen in the Great War.

In 2023 Stephen left the BBC after 34 years and his book  John Hume : The Persuader based on 100 interviews was published to much acclaim. It is regarded as the definitive biography of the former SDLP leader. His latest work is his 2025 biography of the late Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble. It is the first life and death biography of the former Ulster Unionist leader. Like his Hume book, it is also based on over 100 interviews with key players including Tony Blair, Bertie Ahern, Gerry Adams and Trimble’s friends and family.

Terry Prone

Terry Prone is a leading advisor on reputation management and crisis handling to corporations, Governments and individuals. As Managing Director of Carr Communications, she expanded its reach to provide training and consultancy in seventeen overseas companies. In 2009, she succeeded Tom Savage as Chairman of The Communications Clinic. Terry has published 33 books including eight critically-acclaimed novels, an award-winning collection of short stories and more than a dozen practical guidebooks, including This Business of Writing for the Institute of Chartered Accountants. She has contributed to The Irish Times, The London Times, the Irish Independent, The Sunday Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail and The Readers Digest. She has a weekly column with The Irish Examiner. From the age of 11, she has appeared regularly on radio and TV in Ireland, and in recent years on BBC TV, UTV, NBC, CBC and The World Service. Terry is the speechwriter for captains of industry, Government Ministers and European Commissioners. She is the most in-demand crisis management consultant in Ireland, dealing with blackmail, terror threats, industrial accidents and medical scandals.

Tom Dunne

Tom Dunne has been front man with the Irish rock band, Something Happens (‘the band that forgot to break up’) for the better part of three decades now. He has also been a radio presenter for the last two decades - probably still best known for his seminal ‘Pet Sounds’ programme on Today FM. He’s only been coming to Hinterland to enthuse audiences about classic rock albums since 2017, but in 2027 we have no doubt that he’ll have been doing that for a decade as well.

Tony Bucher

Tony Bucher grew up in Northern California and worked in a few startups in Silicon Valley and Asia during the dot-com era. He serves as President of the San Francisco Irish Literary and Historical Society, and regularly speaks on topics in California and Irish-American history at the Hinterland Festival and other august venues. He is descended from the notorious Gerritys of Duleek Co. Meath, at least he thinks they are notorious.

Vincent Doumeizel

Vincent Doumeizel is a leading global advocate for algae innovation and sustainable ocean solutions. As Senior Advisor on Oceans to the United Nations Global Compact, he works with governments, scientists, and industry leaders to promote seaweed and plankton as a powerful tool for addressing climate, food security, and environmental challenges.

He is best known for The Seaweed Revolution, his influential book and documentary project that highlights the untapped potential of marine algae to reshape agriculture, packaging, energy, and coastal economies. Doumeizel also leads the UN Global Seaweed Coalition, a worldwide initiative uniting hundreds of organisations to scale seaweed production responsibly and ethically. His new book " The Power of the Plankton" explore the totally untapped potential of plankton, another unsung hero of our planet which is so important for our future. Vincent is a compelling speaker and communicator, he has become one of the most recognisable voices in ocean sustainability, championing practical, science‑driven solutions to restore marine ecosystems and build a more resilient future.