Ireland's Edge announces fascinating line-up for this year's event

Ireland's Edge announces fascinating line-up for this year's event

October 9, 2024

Ireland’s Edge, the ideas and discussion strand of Other Voices, returns to Dingle for its tenth edition on the 29th and 30th of November as part of this year’s Other Voices festival. 

The theme of this year’s programme, ‘Open Channels / Bealaigh Oscailte’ centres on themes of dialogue, movement and exchange, those powerful, often ambiguous forces that shape our relationship with our world. The words ‘Channel’  in English, and ‘Bealach’ in Irish, imply connection and communication. Ireland’s Edge for the past ten years now has itself been a channel, a way through the noise and chatter; a space in which people and ideas meet up; a forum where a diversity of voices and perspectives are brought to bear on the developments that define and redefine our world every day. This tenth edition will seek to give voice to why this kind of collective discourse and exchange is so indispensable to our shared future. 

As the world becomes ever more fractured, from the level of the community, to the transnational, movement and discourse in turn have become more fraught. This year, we will ask what lessons we can take from our global, and indeed national, past and present, and what policy makers, leaders and citizens might do to keep the channels open.

With a compelling lineup of speakers, panellists and performers, drawn from the worlds of politics, media, technology and creativity in its broadest sense, Open Channels / Bealaigh Oscailte will investigate how openness, the ability to both transmit and receive, to welcome and be welcomed, to speak and to listen, is a vital resource upon which our societies depend. 

Featuring: Aodh Ó’Domhnaill, CEO, Irish Fish Producers Organisation, Aoife Gallagher, Senior Analyst, Institute for Strategic Dialogue; Disinformation Expert, Billy Mag Fhloinn, Folklorist, Musician and Artist, Blinne Ní Ghrálaigh KC, Christopher Kissane, Writer, Historian, Host of the Ireland’s Edge Podcast, David Kenny, Professor at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin, Diarmaid Ferriter, Professor of Modern Irish History, UCD; Writer and Broadcaster, Didi Ronan, Founder, NATIVE, Doireann Ní Ghlacáin PhD, Broadcaster, Musician, How To Gael Podcast, Eamon Ryan, Minister for the Department of Environment, Climate and Communications, and the Department of Transport, Ella McSweeney, Broadcaster and Journalist, Joshua Richards, Researcher and Designer, Forensic Architecture, Kevin Bakhurst, Director General, RTÉ, Lucky Khambule, Co-Founder, the Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland, Olive Heffernan, Science Journalist and Author, Peadar O’Fionnáin, Green Party Local Area Representative, Corca Dhuibhne, SexyTadhg, Artist and Una Mullally, Journalist, Writer and Broadcaster.

Courtesy of our venue partner The Skellig Hotel, a specially prepared three-course lunch will be available to all Saturday attendees in the Skellig Hotel’s Coastguard Restaurant. 

Tickets for this year's Ireland's Edge are now available here.

Join us // Bígí linn.

This tenth edition of Ireland's Edge has been made possible thanks to the support of our event partners Reed and AIB.

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