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Final tickets to Ireland’s Edge at @othervoiceslive.bsky.social are available here:
bit.ly/3W1qqUF
#IrelandsEdge25 #OtherVoices25
This year’s Ireland’s Edge is dedicated to Manchán Magan — a light-bringer, keeper of the flame, philosopher, druid, scholar, wild rover and Gael. His contribution to Irish life, culture, and language is beyond measure. We owe him so much, and we will miss him deeply.
Ní bheidh a leithéid arís ann.
Throughout the weekend, we will explore how storytelling and dialogue can draw us closer, helping us recognise our shared humanity and the fragile threads that connect us, and reminding us that in welcoming difference, we replenish the wellspring of our collective imagination.
Over two days, we will explore themes of humanity, art and place. We will hear from voices pursuing justice and peace in Palestine, from those reflecting on the profound implications of the AI boom and from experts offering timely perspectives on climate change, housing, and gentrification.
Ireland’s Edge 2025 begins today! And we’re so delighted to welcome you all back to our home in Dingle for what is set to be a special weekend of conversation, connection and performance.
Hosted by Christopher Kissane, this panel will ask how can we prepare our coasts for the challenges of the next decades? And how can science support sustainable communities?
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Joining us for what will be a fascinating discussion is Co-founder of the Maharees Conservation Association CLG, Martha Farrell and Professor of Geomorphology at Trinity College Dublin, Mary Bourke.
Nearly half the Irish population lives within a few miles of the coast, while rising sea levels and extreme weather associated with climate change are putting our coastal areas at risk, increasing dangers for communities, many of which also face issues of economic and demographic sustainability.
We are so pleased that Dimi can join us to speak with Christopher Kissane about what more we can do in the struggle for solidarity and a future built on shared humanity.
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He has written widely on politics in the Middle East and Britain for The New Statesman, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, and others. As a facilitator/researcher, he has explored peace and dialogue in Northern Ireland. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Othering and Belonging Institute at UC Berkeley.
Dimi Reider is an Israeli journalist living in London. He is the co-founder of +972 Magazine, the Palestinian-Israeli media collective that has undertaken many major investigations into the ongoing genocide in Gaza, and was a major critic of the rise of Israeli authoritarianism.
Left-wing journalists around the world continue to report on injustice and violence, but their work has become ever more difficult in the face of rising authoritarianism.
We are so grateful that Professor Bourke has agreed to come to Dingle to share her extraordinary expertise and insight with us, in what promises to be a fascinating conversation on the future of our coastal communities amid a rising tide of challenges.
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Since her BA and MA from University College Dublin she has undertaken Ph.D and Post-Doctoral research at the Australian National University, Smithsonian Institution and has held academic positions at the University of Oxford and the Planetary Science Institute, AZ before her move back to Ireland.
Prof. Mary Bourke (TCD), is an Earth and Planetary Geomorphologist with expertise in extreme environments on Earth and Mars. She has published over 90 manuscripts on Antarctica, Australia, Namibia, Mars and Ireland. She now works on the impact of climate change on Irish river and coastal systems.
Ed joins us at Ireland’s Edge to chat with Christopher Kissane about process and importance of deep reporting and long-form storytelling and his fascinating career to date.
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He was named Journalist of the Year by the Foreign Press Association of London for his coverage of civil war in the Central African Republic, alongside investigations of diamonds, money laundering + sinking ships. His latest book ‘The Moth and the Mountain’ was a Telegraph Sports Book of the Year.
Ed Caesar is a Staff Writer for The New Yorker Magazine, whose recent feature essay, ‘The Irishman’, offered the most in-depth look yet into Daniel Kinahan and his criminal empire.
In our age of ever-shorter attention spans, long-form reporting has become an endangered art. But some stories require months and years of investigation and thought to be told properly.
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This panel made up of investigative Carole Cadwalladr, writer, Roisin Kiberd, and Senior reporter at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Niamh McIntyre, will discuss the recent explosion in AI and shed light on this boom and what it means for us all.
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So are new technologies improving our online world, or contributing to its 'enshittification', and how do their effects filter through to our offline real lives?
The internet has become a very different place thanks to the rise of AI, with automated content, generative bots and pernicious algorithms altering our online world. For many, AI is the route to a better future, for others, it is a regulatory nightmare metastasising toxic bias.
Blending emotional honesty with creative ambition, SOAK continues to evolve, offering compelling performances and music that resonates deeply with audiences.
Bígí linn, a chairde // Not to be missed.
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Derry-born singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, known as SOAK, is one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary indie music. Their intimate storytelling and atmospheric sound have earned widespread critical praise, along with nominations for both the Mercury Prize and the Choice Music Prize.
We’re so delighted that long-time friend of Other Voices, SOAK will be with us to perform some of their beautiful music at Ireland’s Edge this Friday.
From gentrification to the Gaeltacht, our panel of artist and musician, Gemma Dunleavy, BÁNÚ spokesperson, Adhna Ní Bhraonáin and Lecturer & Housing Policy Analyst, Lorcan Sirr, will dig into the diffuse issues in housing and how communities may be key to our path forward.
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Hosted by journalist and author, Una Mullally, this discussion will try to tell this story from a different perspective, to focus on areas less covered and less understood in the current discourse.
What began as an issue in pockets of Ireland’s cities, has spread to a crisis affecting every facet of Irish life. Though it consistently tops polls as the most important issue and is debated at every level of public life, progress or even clarity on the issue of housing often feels beyond reach.
Beidh Emma Ferrari ag comhrá le triúr a bhfuil tionchar á imirt acu ar chúrsaí cultúrtha, ar an chomhcheangal agus idirspleáchas atá le sonrú idir theanga agus chruthaíocht, agus an dóigh a bhfuil an Ghaeilge agus saol an lae inniu fite fuaite le chéile.
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Cén borradh atá taobh thiar den rabharta mór seo? Cén tionchar atá á imirt ag cultúr agus ealaíon ar an teanga? Agus cén buntáiste is féidir a bhaint as seo le leas na Gaeilge ó thaobh tacaíochta agus maoiniú de sna blianta atá amach romhainn?