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Úna-Minh Kavanagh
Úna-Minh Kavanagh is a journalist and multimedia content creator. She is the author of Anseo (2019) and eBook, DIY Gaeilge: 150 Irish Language Resources (2021). She edits the good news website WeAreIrish.ie and is a live Twitch streamer who broadcasts bilingually under the moniker ‘Yunitex’. Úna-Minh has a B.A. in Irish and Journalism (DCU).
Kneecap
Kneecap are a Belfast, Northern Ireland-based hip hop trio with the stage-names Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvaí. Merging Irish with English, satire with socially conscious lyrics, and reality with absurdity, theirs is a voice which comes screaming from the too-often deprived areas of the North of Ireland, speaking in a language which is too-often ignored, and it makes for suitably electrifying stuff. www.kneecap.ie
Peia Luzzi
Peia Luzzi is an American born song collector, writer and multi-instrumentalist based in the mountains of Southern Oregon. Like water from a deep well, she draws inspiration from her ancestral roots of Celtic and Old World European folk music. www.peiasong.com
Annemarie Ní Churreáin
Annemarie Ní Churreáin is a poet from the Donegal Gaeltacht. Much of her work interweaves landscape, Irish history, mythological stories and folklore. Her publications include Bloodroot (Doire Press, 2017) and The Poison Glen (The Gallery Press, coming very soon!). She is a recipient of The Next Generation Award Artist from the Arts Council and a co-recipient of The Markievicz Award. Visit studiotwentyfive.com
Woven Kin - Siobhán Moore & Aisling Urwin
Based out of Co. Kerry, Ireland and New Hampshire, USA, Ash and Siobhán come together for the harmony-centered melodies of Woven Kin. Their songs are dreamscapes and journeys, tradition and new ground. www.wovenkinmusic.com
Inni - K (Eithne Ní Chatháin)
Named by RTÉ.ie as, “One of ten fierce women defining Irish culture”, singer, songwriter & multi-instrumentalist Inni-K (Eithne Ní Chatháin) draws on her extensive background in folk and traditional Irish music even as she ventures into new musical territories. Her music combines ethereal vocals, deft musicianship, and evocative lyrics (bilingual at times). www.inni-k.com
Rising Appalachia
Rising Appalachia is an American folk music group led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith. As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots. www.risingappalachia.com
Timmy Creed
Timmy Creed is an actor, writer and yoga teacher currently based in West Kerry. He is interested in creating performance that mixes movement, documentary and personal storytelling to engage and activate new and broad audiences. He works bilingually, is currently developing a show about madness with his sister and is commissioned by the Abbey Theatre to create an outdoor performance around a fire about ‘The Burning of Cork’. www.spliced.ie
Róise Goan
Róise Goan works as the Artistic Director of Artsadmin in London. Prior to her appointment she worked as Guest Dramaturg at Vooruit in Belgium, and as a freelance arts programmer in Ireland. Alongside her work in the performing arts, she has written for television, most notably the TG4 series Aifric.
Ola Majekodunmi
Ola Majekodunmi is a gaeilgeoir, freelance writer and public speaker, and is a broadcaster with Raidió na Life. She is a writer, providing content for the Irish Times, journal.ie, RTÉ.ie and other platforms, and has also worked with TG4 discussing subjects such as politics, race and the Irish language. Ola can also be heard on the national radio stations RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, RTÉ Radio 1, RTÉ 2FM and BBC Radio Ulster.
Louis de Paor
Louis de Paor is one of the most celebrated poets of the Irish language. A former editor of the acclaimed Irish language journal Innti, he is now the Director of the Centre for Irish Studies at the National University of Ireland, Galway. De Paor has worked alongside many of the giants of literature in the Irish language such as Sean Ó Tuama with whom he edited a twentieth century anthology of poetry in Irish.
Margaret A. Noodin
Margaret A. Noodin is a poet and the author of Bawaajimo: A Dialect of Dreams in Anishinaabe Language and Literature, Weweni: Poems in Anishinaabemowin and English, and What the Chickadee Knows. She teaches American Indian Literature, Celtic Literature, Indigenous Language Revitalization and Anishinaabemowin language at University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Margaret is the editor of ojibwe.net and the Papers of the Algonquian Conference.
