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Barrie Dowdall (Director) is an award winning filmmaker who specializes in producing, directing and shooting documentaries and films of historical, human and social interest for broadcasters worldwide. He has produced and directed work in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Jordan, Nepal, Zambia, Nigeria, Indonesia, Australia, Venezuela, the United States and throughout Europe for various broadcasters including RTE, BBC, BBC ALBA, TG4, PBS (The Bill Moyers Show) ZDF, The HISTORY CHANNEL, ABC, CHANNEL 9 and FOXTEL.

Titles amongst others include: The Long Road (An Bóthar Fada), Ned Kelly, Exile In Hell, Afghanistan - After The War, One Man & His Dog, Banished Women (Mná Díbeartha), Sanctuary, The Hit Producer, Promise & Unrest, Chess, Tómas, Forgiveness, and Violet Gibson.

Siobhán Lynam (Producer) works as a social researcher and policy analyst and is an occasional lecturer at the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM). The Irishwoman Who Shot Mussolini,  Siobhán’s first radio documentary, won a Gold Award at the New York Festivals World’s Best Radio Programmes

Siobhán is a director of Ned Kelly Pictures, a Dublin based independent film and TV company and over the past 15 years has worked on a range of documentaries that have been directed and produced by her pal and husband Barrie Dowdall.

Siobhán was researcher, writer and co producer of the award-winning MNÁ DÍBEARTHA (Banished Women) (2013 BCI, TG4), the four-part documentary series about Australia’s Founding Mothers, the 25,000 convict women, over half of them Irish, who were forcibly transported to Australia between 1787 and 1853 as part of the British colonisation project.

Miriam Nyhan Grey trained as a historian in Ireland, Italy & US. Her interests lie in migration, race, ethnicity, empire & diaspora nationalism. She has taught at New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House since 2009; is a collaborator for NYU’s Archives of Irish America’s Glucksman Ireland House Oral History Collection & hosts This Irish American Life on public radio hour. A founding board member of the African American Irish Diaspora Network, in 2019 she initiated the Black, Brown & Green Voices to amplify the experiences of people of African & Irish ancestry. Her first book was a social history of Ireland’s only Ford plant; in 2016 she edited Ireland’s Allies: America & the 1916 Easter Rising (UCD Press, Dublin); a regular co-editor of the American Journal of Irish Studies & inaugural associate editor of the new NYU Press Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series.