Collaborators
Curatorial Assistant ID2015
Rachel Gallagher
IAF Production IAF
Sile Stewart
Film Director and Production
Bonnie Dempsey, Dyehouse Films / David O'Sullivan, Dyehouse Films
London Panel Discussion
Angela Brady PPRIBA, Director Brady Mallalieu Architects in discussion with: Dervilla Mitchell, CBE, Engineer for Arup; Jarlath Regan, comic and creator of the Irishman Abroad Podcast; Professor Mary Hickman, research fellow at the Centre for Irish Studies; Niall McLaughlin, Niall McLaughlin Architects; Ultan Cowley, author of The Men Who Built Britain. Introduction by Mr Jimmy Deenihan T.D. Minister for Diaspora Affairs.
London Film Participants
Ultan Cowley (Historian), Tony Murray (Director of Iris Studies London Metropolitan University), Jennie McShannon, CEO Irish in Britain), Dylan Haskins (Broadcaster), Dan Mulhall (Irish Ambassador to Great Britain 2015)
Chicago Panel Discussion
Shiben Banerji (Assistant Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism SAIC), John E. Sheridan (Senior Vice President, James McHugh Construction Co.), Ellen Grimes (Associate Professor of Architecture SAIC), Billy Lawless (Restaurateur and Immigration Activist) and Vincent L. Michael (PhD, Trustee, Global Heritage Fund) will discuss the theme from their distinctive perspectives with moderator Timothy Mennel (Senior Editor at University of Chicago Press).
Chicago Film Participants
Clare Lyster (Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture UIC), Kevin Harrington (Architectural Historian), Ellen Skerrett (Chicago Historian and Author), Rich Lindberg (Novelist and Historian) and John Ronan (award-winning Architect).
New York Panel Discussion
Marion R. Casey (Glucksman Ireland House NYU), Daryl Kerrigan (CEO, Creative Director, Daryl K),Caroline O’Donnell (Principal, CODA), Kevin Roche (Principal, KRJDA), Brian Tolle (Artist, Irish Hunger Memorial NYC), Raymond W. Gastil, AICP (Director, Pittsburgh Dept. of City Planning).
New York Film Participants
Kevin Roche (Architect), Irish American Building Society New York, Irish Arts Center, Irish Screen America, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, National University of Ireland Maynooth, New York Historical Society, Rachel O’Connor.
Sponsors
Irish Design 2015, Office of the Minister for Diaspora Affairs of Ireland, Design and Crafts Council, Irish Architecture Foundation
