GABRIEL ROSENSTOCK (below) is a poet, author/translator of over 150 books, mostly in Irish. He taught haiku at the Schule für Dichtung (Poetry Academy) in Vienna. Among his awards is the Tamgha I Kidmat medal for services to literature.

His vast output includes stage plays, plays for radio and television (RTÉ, Raidió na Life), novels and short stories, essays, criticism, travel literature, children’s literature in prose and verse, including Irish versions of such classics as The Gruffalo and hundreds of translations of TV series such as Spongebob and The Muppet Show. Among the anthologies in which he is represented is Best European Fiction 2012 (Dalkey Archive Press, USA).

MÍCHEÁL Ó HAODHA lectures in the Department of History, University of Limerick. He has published widely on Irish migration, the Irish diaspora, social geography and oral history. His books include American ‘Outsider’:Stories from the Irish Traveller Diaspora (2007, with T.J. Vernon); ‘The Turn of the Hand’: A Memoir from the Irish Margins (2010, with Mary Ward) and ‘On the Run’: The Diary of an Irish Republican (2011, with Ruan O’Donnell).