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Fergus Finlay is the Chief Executive of the charity Barnardos in Ireland. He was a senior member of the Irish Labour Party and is also a weekly columnist with the Irish Examiner and the author of a number of books including Snakes & Ladders, Cruel Trade and A Decade of Irish Life. He is also credited with helping to organise the visit of the Special Olympics to Ireland.
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Eithne Hand is a writer/ theatre and radio producer/ curator from Greystones, Co Wicklow. She has had poetry published in THE SHOp, Southword, Crannóg, The Irish Times and Poetry Ireland Review. Shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh Award and highly commended in the Gregory O’Donoghue Prize in 2016, Eithne is working towards a first collection.
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Mike McCormack is an Irish novelist and short story writer. He has published two collections of short stories, Getting It In the Head and Forensic Songs and three novels - Crowe's Requiem, Notes from a Coma and Solar Bones. Winner of the Rooney Prize for Literature, The Irish Novel of the Year and longlisted for The Man Booker Prize, Solar Bones is a hymn to modern small-town life with its “rites, rhythms and rituals / upholding the world like solar bones”, as well as an indictment of human greed and stupidity, and how places and cultures respond to the circumstances beyond their control and yet of their own making.
‘Mike McCormack’s Solar Bones is exceptional indeed: an extraordinary novel by a writer not yet famous but surely destined to be acclaimed' The Guardian |
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