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Manchán Magan
has written, presented and co-produced a series of 50 travel
documentaries. Has made a historical movie on the Irish Civil
War, The Struggle for RTE. In 1998
he wrote a travelogue on Africa, Manchán ar Seachrán. A follow-up,
Baba-ji & TnaG won the 2005 Oireachtas Prize for non-fiction.
In May 2006 Brandon published his first English book, Angels
and Rabies. Having knocked his straw bale cottage, he now
lives in a grass-roofed house in Co Westmeath.
Owen Gilhooly
Limerick born baritone Owen Gilhooly studied with Jean Holmes and
subsequenyly at the Royal College of Music and National Opera Studio.
He made his début at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, singing
the Fauré Requiem. Operatic engagements
have included roles for the Royal Dublin Society, Castleward Opera,
Cork Opera 2005, Opera Project, OTC,Dublin, Wexford Festival Opera,
Opera Ireland, Lyric Opera Productions, Dublin, Savoy Opera, the
ENO Studio, and for Scottish Opera and the Ulster Orchestra. He
has broadcast for BBC Radio 2's Friday Night is Music Night. Most
recently, he has sung Joseph and Polydorus
in Berlioz L'enfance du Christ with the
BBC Symphony Orchestra and Sir Andrew Davis.
Melissa Murray
is an award winning poet and playwright who works mainly in theatre
and radio. Her collection of short stories Changelings
was published here in Ireland. Her radio work, broadcast by BBC
Radio 4 and Radio 3 and the World Service, includes many short
stories and over fifteen original plays. She has also dramatized
many notable classics. Her five part adaptation of Dostoyevsky's
The Brothers Karamazov was a highlight
of last year's BBC Radio 4 schedule. She has written and presented
non-fiction programmes on literary and cultural matters both for
the BBC and for Lyric FM. Melissa moved from London to Ireland
in the early 80's
Terry Corcoran
from Drogheda studied economics in UCD from 1970-75. He worked
in the Department of Labour from 1977, in the Youth Employment
Agency (1982-88) and has been with FÁS since 1988, where he is
Director of Corporate Governance and Internal Audit. He has consulted
on employment and training services for international organisations
and governments in Eastern Europe, the Balkans and Africa. He
worked with the EU Commission (1999-2001) on employment-policy
aspects of the accession of the 10 new member states.
Anne Maguire
was born in Dublin in 1962. At 19 she started work for the Department
of Labour as a clerical assistant and began her political education
during the H-Block Hunger Strikes in 1981. She worked on two general
election campaigns supporting Bernadette McAliskey, and was also
active in fighting the anti-abortion campaign in the Republic,
as well as campaigning to end the strip searching of women political
prisoners in the North. In 1987 she emigrated to the U.S. and
eventually settled in the stock footage and currently works as
a content editor in film at Getty Images. She was a founding member
of the Irish Lesbian & Gay Organization in 1990 as well as the
Lesbian Avengers in 1992. Her book Rock the
Sham! was published in 2006 and she is currently working
on a novel.
Terry Lynch
is a GP and psychotherapist living and working in Limerick. He
qualified from UCC in 1982 and became a GP. By 1997 he became
concerned about certain aspects of health and health care. This
concern culminated in the publication of his book Beyond
Prozac Ireland in 2001, and in Britain in 2004. Terry Lynch
now works exclusively in the field of mental health. He contributed
to A Vision for Change (2006), a report
that forms the basis of mental health policy for the next 7-10
years in Ireland. He is also a member of the Independent Monitoring
Group for A Vision for Change (2006-8)
and the Irish Health Service Executive's Expert Advisory Group
on Mental Health (2006-8).
Thomas Moore
was born in Detroit, Michigan to an Irish American family. At
thirteen, he left home to enter the Servite Order and study for
the priesthood. Those studies took him to Our Lady of Benburb
Priory in County Tyrone for two years of philosophy. He left the
order after another thirteen years, studied music, theology, and
world religions, and got his Ph.D. in religious studies. He taught
at universities and then became a psychotherapist in private practice.
In 1992 he published Care of the Soul,
a bestselling book that is still being bought and read. He lectures
on psychotherapy, medicine, and the soul of culture and is now
working on his eighteenth book, a novel about self-transformation.
Bríona Nic Dhiarmada
Lectures in the Dept. of Languages and Cultural Studies, University
of Limerick. She was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and UCD.
She is the author of a full length study of the poetry Nuala Ní
Dhomhnaill, Glór Baineann, Glór Mná
(2006). Among her other publication are Téacs
agus Comhthéacs (with M. Ní Annracháin) (1998), she was
a contributing editor to The Field Day Anthology
of Irish Writing Vols. IV & V and to Cambridge
History of Irish Literature (Kellegher, O'Leary eds.) She
is also a documentary filmmaker.
John Horgan
is enjoying a life long fascination with music. He was a member
of the government appointed "Piano" group which examined the role
of the RTE Orchestras. He is a former member of the Board of the
Irish Chamber Orchestra. Describing himself as a dilettante in
musical matters, John is a former Chairman of the Labour Court
and now earns his living as a Human Resource Consultant.
Nuala Ní Dhómhnaill
Born in the North of England; she was raised in Ventry (Dingle
Gaeltacht) Co. Kerry from the age of five and is one of Ireland's
best poets. Among her books are An Dealg Droíghín;
Féar Suithinseach; (versions in English
by Michael Hartnett) and a full collection Selected
Poems/Rogha Danta. She is a member of Aosdana, and was
editor of Modern Irish Poetry section of Field
Day Anthology of Irish Writing, Vols. 4 & 5 (2002)
Ruairi Quinn
Having spent thirty-five years committed to Irish politics, Ruairi
Quinn has now written about his own journey - a journey that has
taken him to the heights of power as Labour's first ever Minister
for Finance and Leader of the Labour Party. He was Leader of the
Labour Party from 1997 to 2002 and Minister for Finance 1994 -
1997 Minister for Enterprise & Employment 1993 - 1994 Minister
for Public Service 1986 - 1987, Minister for Labour 1984 - 1987
Minister of State for the Environment 1982 - 1983. Bachelor of
Architecture and a Higher Diploma in Ekistics
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