Aine Ni Ghlinn is a poet and journalist. She produces and presents two weekly arts programmes for Raidio na Gaeltachta, Labhragan and Ar an Ardan She has published three collections of poetry, An Cheim Bhriste; Gairdin Pharthais, which won the Bord na Gaeilge award at Listowel Writers Week 1997; and Deora Nar Caoineadh/Unshed Tears. She has also published two non-fiction works for teenagers: Mna agus an Ngnath and Daoine agus Deithe. She has received a number of Oireachtas awards and Arts Council bursaries in 1992 and 1996.
Diarmaid O Muirithe is a native of New Ross, Co Wexford. He has recently retired from the Department of Irish Language and Literature in UCD, where he was statutory lecturer. He has been a Fulbright professor of English and has lectured in American and Canadian Universities. He is the author of 10 books on a range of topics including works on Anglo-Irish lexicography. He has had more than a dozen plays broadcast by RTE Radio in both Irish and English. He is the author of The Irish Times Saturday column, The Words We Use.
Alan Titley is head of the Irish Department at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra, Dublin. He is a novelist, story writer, dramatist and literary scholar. He is the author of nine books including a novel, An Fear Dana, collections of short stories, Eiriceachtai agus Scealta Eile, which won the Irish-American Butler Prize in 1987, and Leabhar Nora Ni Anluain and a collection of fables, Fabhalscealta. An tUrsceal Gaeilge is a comprehensive study of the novel in Irish, and Chur Doirne is a selection of his cultural and literary essays. His play, An Ghrain agus an Ghruaim, opens at the Samuel Beckett Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, next Wednesday.