DERMOT BOLGER
Writer and critic. He is the author of several novels and plays –including the Journey Home, Father’s Music and A Dublin Quartet- and the editor of the short story collection Finbar’s Hotel. A poet and publisher, he is the editor of the Picador Book of Contemporary Irish Ficton. He lives and works in Dublin.
ROY FOSTER:
A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, he is Carroll Professor of Irish History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Hertford College. His books include Charles Stewart Parnell: the Man and His Family. Modern Ireland 1600-1972, Paddy and Mr Punch, W. B. Yeats: A Life and The Irish Story.
FRANCISCO GARCÍA TORTOSA:
He is professor of English at the University of Sevilla (Spain) and the President of the Spanish James Joyce Association. He is the author of many publications on language and literature including his recent edition and translation of Ulysses and the bilingual editon of Anna Livia Plurabelle (Finnegans Wake, I, viii).