Michael Pierse is an academic and former newspaper editor whose area of interest lies in the writings of Irish working-class people. Influenced heavily by his own upbringing in Dublin, he talks about his experiences of class discrimination and under-representation of working class people in literature and cultural expression.

Feminist historian, Margaret Ward, reflects on how she came to focus her studies on women in Irish history, the challenges she faced and how she met Nora Connolly O’Brien on her journey!

Laurence McKeown, author, playwright and screenwriter, discusses how he began writing during his time in Long Kesh prison, how this later developed into him completing his PhD and the importance of people recording their own history.