Marilynn Richtarik is professor of English at Georgia State University, USA. She is author of a critically acclaimed biography, Stewart Parker, A Life (OUP, 2012).

Timothy R. Jackson is an Associate Professor of German (Emeritus) at Trinity College Dublin

Catherine Heaney (TCD 1991-95, History of Art and English; 1996-97 MSc Multimedia) is a freelance writer and editor. She worked for many years in magazines in Dublin and London, including Image, Red and The Gloss, and has been a regular reviewer for the Books pages of The Irish Times. In more recent years, she has worked in publishing, at Fourth Estate and later at Faber and Faber, where she ran the creative-writing school Faber Academy. She lives in London.

Maurice Craig (1919-2011) was born in Belfast and educated in Dalkey and Shrewsbury, and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and Trinity College, Dublin, where he gained a doctorate in Landor studies (suggested to him by Patrick Kavanagh). An architectural historian, poet and biographer, he is the author of Mausolea Hibernica, The Elephant and the Polish Question, The Architecture of Ireland, Classic Irish Houses of the Middle Size, Irish Bookbindings, Dublin 1660-1860 and The Volunteer Earl, among other books, and edited W.S. Landor: One Hundred Poems.

Leo Daly, a native of Mullingar, Co. Westmeath, is a distinguished writer, broadcaster and photo-journalist. His books include James Joyce & the Mullingar Connection (1975) and a guide-book, Oileain Arann (1975), Titles (1981), a collection of essays, and The Rock Garden (1984), a novel.

THOMAS BARTLETT is Professor of Modern Irish History at University College Dublin. He is author of The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation: The Catholic Question 1690-1830 (1992), among other works, and co-editor (with Keith Jeffrey) of A Military History of Ireland (1996). Professor Bartlett is a member of the Royal Irish Academy.