S.E. Wilmer is Director of the Samuel Beckett Centre for Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College, Dublin

Brendan O’Donoghue studied Philosophy and Economics in Maynooth, receiving an M.A in Philosophy from University College Dublin in 2001 before completing his doctorate on Martin Heidegger in 2007. He taught philosophy at University College Cork 2008–2010, and at the University of Edinburgh 2010–2011.

Declan J. Foley was born in Sligo in 1950, and moved to Melbourne in 1987. He founded the Yeats Society  of Victoria  in 1990 and the Annual  Yeats Poetry Prize for Australia.  He has organised seminars on John Butler Yeats at Chestertown N.Y. and at TCD. His previous book for Lilliput, The Only Art of Jack B. Yeats, was published in 2009.

CORMAC O’GRÁDA is Associate Professor of Economics at University College Dublin.

Anne Dolan is a lecturer in modern Irish history and deputy director of the Centre for Contemporary Irish History at Trinity College Dublin. She is author of Commemorating the Irish Civil War: History and Memory 1923-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2003).

Cormac K.H. O’Malley co-edited with Richard English Prisoners: The Civil War Letters of Ernie O’Malley (Poolbeg, 1991) and edited Rising Out: Sean Connolly of Longford (1890-1921) by Ernie O’Malley (UCD Press, 2007). Cormac is an international legal consultant based in New York City and is the son of Ernie O’Malley.

Christopher Ricks is a Professor of the Humanities at Boston University, having previously taught at Oxford, Bristol and Cambridge. He has published books on Milton, Tennyson, Keats, T.S. Eliot and Beckett, as well as two collections of critical essays. He is the editor of The Oxford Book of English Verse (1999). His other works as editor include The Brownings: Letters and Poetry (1970), The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse (1987), A.E. Housman: Collected Poems and Selected Prose (1988) and The Faber Book of America (1992; with William M. Vance).