20 Years of the Good Friday Agreement

David Donoghue was one of the Irish government’s negotiators for the Good Friday Agreement. He served as Irish Ambassador in Russia, Germany and Austria, before being appointed Permanent Representative of Ireland to the UN in New York. In this role he helped to facilitate the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the New York Declaration for Refugees and Migrants. He retired from the Irish foreign service in 2017 but remains active in these issues.

Kerri ní Dochartaigh is a Northern Irish writer known for her nature writings. She has published in The Guardian, The Irish Times and elsewhere. Her first book, Thin Places, published in Spring 2021, provides an insight into her war-torn childhood growing up in a mixed Catholic-Protestant household during the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and how she found peace in nature. Thin Places won the Butler Literary Award 2022, and was highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. Cacophony of Bone, out now, is her second book. She lives in the west of Ireland with her family.