First Thought Talk with Martina Fitzgerald, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Jan O’Sullivan

1 December 2018

RTÉ Political Correspondent Martina Fitzgerald in conversation with Máire Geoghegan-Quinn and Jan O’Sullivan about the challenges faced and progress made by women in Irish politics over the past 100 years.

First Thought Talk with Alice Leahy and Donna O’Neill

1 December 2018

In this video, Trust founder Alice Leahy and Donna O’Neill of COPE Galway discuss decades of experience as advocates for Ireland’s homeless population.

First Thought Talk with Ben Rawlence

1 December 2018

City of Thorns author Ben Rawlence in conversation with Sarah Hickson about the global refugee crisis.

First Thought Talk with Fintan O’Toole

30 November 2018

Full video: Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole dissects the psychology and politics of Brexit.

First Thought Talk with Mitchell Joachim

28 July 2018

Architect and urban designer Mitchell Joachim speaks of his vision for a sustainable future in Grow Your Own Home.

First Thought Talk with Tomi Reichental

28 July 2018

Tomi Reichental was born in Slovakia in 1935 and sent to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1944. In An Unimaginable Home, he talks with Saul Woolfson about his experiences.

First Thought Talk with Professor Roy Foster

22 July 2018

GIAF talks with Professor Roy Foster, acclaimed Yeats biographer, about the historic dwelling where the poet wrote some of his best work in When All Is Ruin Once Again.

First Thought Talk with Liz Fekete

22 July 2018

Liz Fekete, Director of the Institute of Race Relations, discusses the rise of the right in this talk entitled Europe’s Fault Lines: What is Happening to our European Home?

First Thought Talk with Catherine Corless

21 July 2018

Local historian Catherine Corless discusses her research into infant mortality in the Tuam and Bessborough Mother and Baby Homes.

First Thought Talk with President Michael D. Higgins

21 July 2018

President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins launches the Festival’s 2018 First Thought Talks programme with comments on the theme of Home.

First Thought Talk with Enda Walsh

12 January 2018

Irish playwright Enda Walsh talks to St Ann’s Warehouse Artistic Director Susan Feldman in this live recording of GIAF’s first international First Thought Talk of 2018.

First Thought Talk with Professor Noel Sharkey

23 July 2017

GIAF sits down with Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Sheffield, Noel Sharkey in this live recording of his First Thought Talk titled ‘Doctor, Who’s in Charge of the Robots?’