Valerie Pakenham worked as a journalist in London at Condé Nast and the Daily Mail before her marriage to the writer Thomas Pakenham. Her most recent…

Andy Pollak is the founding director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies in Armagh (1999-2013). Previous to that, he was Belfast reporter, religious affairs and…

Stewart Parker (1941-1988), Belfast dramatist, was the celebrated author of Spokesong (1974), Catchpenny Twist (1977), Nightshade (1980) and Northern Star (1984). He wrote numerous award-winning plays…

TOM PHELAN, who was born in the Irish midlands in 1940, went to St. Patricks Seminary, Carlow, in the early 1960s, was ordained and worked in…

TERRY PRONE is a novelist and a leading public-relations consultant.

SUSAN M. PARKES is an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Dublin and a historian of education. She is the author of a book on the history…

GWYN PRINS is director of the Mackinder Programme at the London School of Economics.

Writer and critic, Richard Pine, is author of well-received books on Brian Friel and Oscar Wilde, as well as the standard work Music and Broadcasting in…

Penny Perrick was a fashion editor for Vogue, a columnist on The Sun and The Times and a fiction editor for The Sunday Times. She is also…

John Martin has published two novels: A Land Without Heroes (2002) and Absolutely Perfect (2003). His biography Beyond Belief: The Real Life of Daniel Defoe (2006)…

Arthur Power (1891-1984) was raised in Waterford, and served in the First World War before moving to Paris. He later returned to Ireland and was art…