Writers/Speakers who participated in 2008 Festival Dermot Bolger Marion Coy Roddy Doyle Michael Griffin Lorna Landvik Fintan O'Toole Joanne Harris Darryl Jones 'Clare Three-Legged Stool Poets' Martin Morris Hugo Hamilton Nuala O Faolain Ken Bruen Morgan Llywelyn David Rice Mary O’Donnell Neven Maguire Kate Bateman Eddie Lenihan Nuala Ní Chonchúir Re O Laighléis Meda Ryan Richard Tillinghast Brian Keenan Diarmuid Gavin Theo Dorgan Sarah Binchy Colleen Fitzgerald