We are delighted that Dan Mulhall, the Irish Ambassador to the USA, will return to speak at this year's Festival, having spoken at our first Festival in 2017. His subject this year will be ‘Declaring Independence: America 1776, Ireland 1919?’ To listen back to his fantastic 2017 talk 'War & Peace: two Irish writers in 1917, Francis Ledwidge and AE', click here.

The photo below shows Dan Mulhall at WCHF 2017, along with Micheál Martin.