Dr. Jennifer O’Mahoney is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at South East Technological University (SETU) and a Chartered Member of the Psychological Society of Ireland. She serves as the Co-Director of the Crime and Justice Research Group and as a Senior Researcher at INSYTE (The Centre for INformation SYstems and TEchno-culture), both based at SETU. Her work is driven by a commitment to understanding trauma, memory, and social change through the lens of digital humanities and victimology.
Dr O’Mahoney’s research explores how trauma and victim-survivor narratives are remembered and represented, particularly in the context of historical institutional abuse, cultural heritage, and activism. She is the Principal Investigator of the Waterford Memories Project, which examines the lived experiences of those affected by historical institutional abuse in Ireland. Additionally, she is currently the Irish Co-Investigator for the EU project Women’s Online Wellbeing: A European Exploration of Digitalised Violence Against Women, addressing the intersection of technology and gendered violence.
Her work bridges academia and public discourse, ensuring that research on trauma, memory, and social justice reaches wider audiences and contributes to meaningful societal change.
Frank Groome took up his post as Consul General of Ireland to the US Southeast in August 2024. Based in Atlanta, Frank leads Ireland's team covering Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee.
He was Deputy Head of Mission at the Irish Embassy in The Hague between 2020 and 2024. Prior to his posting in the Netherlands he was Deputy Director for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation in the Department of Foreign Affairs in Dublin.
Frank has worked in various posts in the Department of Foreign Affairs, Department of Environment, Climate and Communications and at the United Nations in New York. Prior to joining the Department of Foreign Affairs, Frank worked in the energy sector for several years.
Dr. Groome holds a Master's degree in law from King’s College London and Ph.D in diplomatic history from University College Dublin.
For over three decades, Bob Harris was the Warden on one of the most remote, forbidding, and beautiful places on earth. His international best-seller, Returning Light: Thirty Years on the Island of Skellig Michael is an outstanding piece of nature writing, garnering unanimous praise from critics.
The island itself is a UNSECO World Heritage site, the most spectacularly situated of all the early medieval island monastic sites in Ireland. It rises from the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of County Kerry, and is also one of the most important sites for breeding seabirds in Ireland.
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"A heartfelt, profound memoir about the importance of place and what it really means to belong." — Belfast Telegraph
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