Speaker: Diarmaid Ferriter
Biography: Professor Diarmaid Ferriter is a Graduate of UCD. He lectured in Modern Irish History at UCD from 1996-1998 and was Senior lecturer in Irish History at St Patrick’s College,
DCU, from 1999-2008. He was appointed Professor of Modern Irish History at UCD in 2008. He was Visiting Burns Library Scholar at Boston College 2008-2009. His main research interests are the social, political and cultural history of twentieth century Ireland. He is the author of numerous books including Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War; The Border: The Legacy of a Century of Anglo-Irish Politics; A Nation and not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution 1913–23; and The Transformation of Ireland 1900-2000. He is a regular contributor to the Irish Times and television and radio programmes.
Speaker: Martin Mansergh
Biography: Deputy Chair, Expert Advisory Group during the Decade of Centenary commemorations, 2012-2023. Senator, later TD, Tipperary South (FF), Minister of State for OPW, Finance and the Arts 2008-11. Appointed to the Council of State by President McAleese in 2004. Former diplomat, political advisor to three Taoisigh, Charles Haughey, Albert Reynolds and Bertie Ahern 1981 till 2002, he was a back-channel to the Republican Movement early in the peace process, working with Fr. Alec Reid C.Ss.R, and participated in negotiation of the Downing Street Declaration and Good Friday Agreement. Author and sometime newspaper columnist.
Speaker: Susan McKay
Biography: Susan McKay has since 2022 been Ireland’s Press Ombudsman, the first woman to be appointed to the role. She is an author and journalist from Derry whose work has won many awards as well as critical acclaim. She has written for The New York Times, the New Yorker, the Irish Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books and many other publications. She started her career as a journalist as a reporter for the Irish Press, and was the Northern editor of the Sunday Tribune during the last years of the conflict and the period of the peace process. A founder of the Belfast Rape Crisis Centre in 1982, she was CEO of the National Women’s Council of Ireland from 2009 to 2012.
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