NEIL DONNELLY is an award-winning playwright. He has written plays for the theatre, including the Abbey Theatre and the Gaiety Theatre, for radio, including for RTÉ and the BBC, and for the screen. CORMAC MILLAR is a crime writer, literary translator and academic writer. His novels are An Irish Solution (2004) and The Grounds (2006). ÉILIS NI DUIBHNE is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer and playwright in both English and Irish. Her novel The Dancers Dancing was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for fiction. MARY O'DONNELL is the author of 11 books, both poetry and fiction, including The Light-Makers, Virgin and the Boy and The Elysium Treatment.