Since its inception in 1999, the Fund for Irish Studies has welcomed Derek Attridge, Abby Bender, Lisa Bitel, Kimberly Bohman, Eavan Boland, Anthony Bradley, Padraig Breatnach, Terence Brown, John Bruton, John Burkhalter, Marian Burleigh-Motley, Mairead Byrne, Michael Cadden, Marina Carr, Vincent Cheng, Neil Corcoran, Frank Corcoran, Michael Cronin, Elizabeth Butler Cullingford, Nancy Curtin, Lawrence Danson, Seamus Deane, Greg Delanty, Tom Devine, Denis Donoghue, Joe Dowling, Rita Duffy, Paul Durcan, Marianne Elliott, Anne Enright, Peter Fallon, R.F. Foster, Oona Frawley, Adrian Frazier, Luke Gibbons, Andrew Gibson, Angela Gleason, Len Graham, Dan Gunn, Nicholas Grene, Eamon Grennan, Vona Groarke, John P. Harrington, Susan Cannon Harris, Dermot Healy, Seamus Heaney, Allan Hepburn, Colum Hourihane, Marjorie Howes, Garry Hynes, Noel Ignatiev, Jennifer Johnston, Neil Jordan, Brendan Kane, Colbert Kearney, Richard Kearney, Howard Keeley, John Kelly, Sir Brian Kerr, Siobhan Kilfeather, Tom Kilroy, J.J. Lee, Joep Leerssen, Edna Longley, Michael Longley, Patrick McCabe, Colum McCann, Fiach Mac Conghail, John McCourt, Barry McCrea, Lucy McDiarmid, John McGahern, Medbh McGuckian, Catherine McKenna, Bernard MacLaverty, Damian McManus, Eoin McNamee, Maire Mhac an tSaoi, Brenda Maddox, Vicki Mahaffey, Alice Maher, Carla Marengo, John Minihan, Ed Moloney, John Montague, Dermot Moran, Julian Moynahan, Adrian Moynes, Maureen Murphy, Pat Murphy, Eilean Ni Chuilleanain, Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill, Padraigin Ni Uallachain, Edna O'Brien, Margaret O'Brien, Conor O'Callaghan, Seamas O'Cathain, John O'Conor, Joseph O'Connor, Nuala O'Faolain, Cormac O'Grada, Padraig O'Machain, Sean O'Mordha, Jamie O'Neill, Joseph O'Neill, Mark O'Rowe, Cathal O'Searcaigh, Fintan O'Toole, Tom Paulin, Pig Iron Theater Company, Dermot Quinn, Justin Quinn, Jean-Michel Rabate, Claude Rawson, Stephen Rea, Eugene Roan, Kevin Rockett, Carol Loeb Shloss, Ronald Schuchard, Dermot Seymour, Vincent Sherry, Elaine Showalter, M. Katharine Simms, William Smyth, Kevin Sweeney, Lawrence Taylor, Natasha Tessone, Mary Helen Thuente, Colm Toibin, John P. Waters, George Watson, Kevin Whelan, Clair Wills, Michael Wood.