in Irish history and politics at Griffith College and formerly at Tisch NYU. A presenter of Newstalk’s ‘Talking History’, he’s also a regular contributor to the station’s Moncrieff show. At the 2010 Electric Picnic he kicked off his latest project, History Ireland Hedge Schools, an ongoing series of round table discussions of historical and contemporary interest.

is a specialist in the INTO Heritage in Schools programme, for whom he gives talks on Ireland’s food culture. Since 2001 Peter has worked with EU election observations missions, most recently in DR Congo and Algeria in 2012.

commemoration and memory in modern Irish history, nationalism and the uses (and abuses) of history; the Great Famine, 18th/19th century Irish emigration and Irish-America. He has been published in History Ireland and Film Ireland, and has contributed to historical programmes on Irish television and radio. Gavin conducts the brand new Historical Running Tour of Dublin, with the opportunity to see the best of Dublin’s varied streetscapes and off-the-beaten-track landmarks while keeping fit.

published on the Hospital of St John the Baptist, a medieval religious hospital in Dublin and has taught extensively at undergraduate level. Grace’s particular passion concerns the medieval history of Dublin – although only fragments of the medieval city survive, they reveal much about life for the inhabitants of the city – the walls which protected them, the markets where they bought their food, the churches whose bells tolled for life and death, and the Castle, which from the twelfth century to the twentieth reminded the citizens of their obligations to the English Crown.