Professor Eda Sagarra has had an illustrious academic career. Currently emeritus Professor of German at Trinity College Dublin, she was also the first female Registrar in…

BRENDAN SAYERS has spent most of his career at the National Botanic Gardens, where he oversees the Glasshouse collections and specialises in orchids. Published collaborations include…

Louise Shanagher is a children’s therapist, mindfulness teacher and psychology lecturer from County Roscommon. Louise has a BA and an MSc in psychology and further qualifications…

TOMMY SANDS was born in 1945 in Co. Down. He is a singer, folk musician, and broadcaster.

THOMAS COLVILLE SCOTT was born in 1818. In 1853 he was sent to do a report on the Martin Estate in Connemara by the London Law…

STEPHEN SENSBACH studied at the University of Texas and in Detmold, Germany, and is presently a cellist with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland.

URSULA MEANY SCOTTis a literary translator from French and Spanish. She holds an M. Phil in literary translation from Trinity College, Dublin, and her translations have…

JEREMY SANDFORD edited Mary Carbery’s West Cork Journal.

LAURENCE STERNE was an Irish-born English novelist and an Anglican clergyman. He is best known for his novels The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman…

Fritz Senn is Director of the Zurich James Joyce Foundation, contributing editor of the James Joyce Quarterly, author of Joyce’s Dislocutions (1984), co-founder and co-editor (until…

Rosita Sweetman has been a campaigner for women’s rights since the seventies and is the author of Fathers Come First, On Our Backs and On Our Knees….

Peter Somerville-Large is the author of Irish Eccentrics.

Mim Scala lives in Co. Carlow, where he runs The Still Moving Picture Company and develops computer software. He is writing a screenplay about his grandfather,…

Kelly Sullivan was born in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, in 1979. She graduated from Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, New York) in 2002, and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship…

Jonathan Shackleton, Antarctic specialist, is a leading expert on the life and achievements of Ernest Shackleton.  

Gregory A. Schirmer is the author of books on Austin Clarke and William Trevor and of Out of What Began: A History of Irish Poetry in…

Denis Sampson teaches English at Vanier College, Montreal. He is also review editor of the Canadian Journal of Irish Studies and has written numerous articles for…

Averil Swinfen is author of Donkeys Galore (1976), Kilfenora Cathedral: A Short History (1986) and Forgotten Stones: Ancient Church Sites of the Burren and Environs (1992)….

Andrée Sheehy Skeffington, née Denis, was born in Amiens in 1910 and graduated from the Sorbonne. In 1935 she married Owen and had two sons and…

Amelia Stein lives and works in Dublin. Over the past 25 years she has established herself as a singularly exacting photographer. Her area of expertise has…