Event Speakers 2014

Juanita Browne

Author of ‘Put the Kettle On- the Irish love affair with tea’.

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Charles Flanagan

Charles Flanagan is the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade.

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Jimmy Deenihan

Minister for Diaspora Affairs Jimmy Deenihan TD is also an All-Ireland football medallist.

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Stuart Dwyer

Mr. Stuart Dwyer is Chargé d’affaires ad interim at the U.S. Embassy in Dublin.

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John Halligan

John Halligan is an Independent TD for Waterford.

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Barry Murphy / Dr Günther Grun

Barry Murphy plays the part of his German alter ego Dr Günther Grun from the Bundesbank.

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Sinead Moynihan

Sinéad Moynihan is a Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Literature at the University of Exeter.

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Christine Kinealy

Professor Christine Kinealy is Founding Director of Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute

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Piaras Mac Éinrí

Piaras Mac Éinrí is lecturer in Migration Studies in the Department of Geography, University College Cork.

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Mark Redmond

Mark Redmond is Chief Executive of the American Chamber of Commerce Ireland, the business group for US companies with operations in Ireland.

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Ciara Kenny

Ciara Kenny is a journalist with The Irish Times. She has curated the Generation Emigration project on irishtimes.com since 2011.

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Leo Enright

Space commentator, former chairman of theDiscover Science and Engineering programme.

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Baroness Nuala O'Loan

Baroness Nuala O’Loan DBE is a member of the House of Lords.

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Professor Nina L. Khrushcheva

Nina L. Khrushcheva is Associate Professor of International Affairs at the New School and Senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York City.

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Lucinda Creighton

Current Vice President of the European People’s Party and an Independent TD representing the people of the Dublin Bay South constituency.

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Nicole Mary Kelby

Critically acclaimed author of ‘The Pink Suit’.

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Páraic Duffy

Páraic Duffy is the 18th Director General of the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA).

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Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh

Broadcaster Micheál Ó Muircheartaigh is Ireland’s most well known GAA commentator.

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Alex White

Alex White is the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources.

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Sean Fleming

A member of the Dail Public Accounts Committee, Oireachtas Finance and Public Expenditure Committee and the Fianna Fail Spokesperson on Public Expenditure and Reform.

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Eoghan Harris

A political speechwriter for Mary Robinson and David Trimble, and was chief media advisor on the successful campaigns of Proinsias De Rossa MEP, 1989, and President Mary Robinson, 1990.

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Patrick Grennan

Curator of the Kennedy Homestead Visitor centre and third cousin, once removed, of JFK.

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You can also view Speakers from the 2013 Summer School.