The Irish Question: A Film on Brexit, History, and Unity

Alan Gilsenan is an award-winning Irish writer, filmmaker, and theatre director. His diverse work extends across documentary, feature films, and experimental work. He is a former Chairperson of the Irish Film Institute and a member of the boards of Screen Ireland and Ireland’s national broadcaster RTÉ. He has also recently been appointed Chairperson of Fighting Words, a national organisation that facilitates creative writing for children & young people.

Gilsenan has received four Irish Film & Television Awards (IFTAs), most recently for The Days of Trees, winner of the 2024 IFTA George Morrison Feature Documentary Award,[2][3] and six IFTA nominations as both director and production designer.

John Walsh is the writer and co-producer of The Irish Question. He is a Dublin-based journalist and author. As a columnist, his work has appeared in The Guardian, The Irish Times, The Sunday Times, The Sunday Telegraph and The Business Post.

He is the Managing Editor of Quartet Publishing, a Dublin/London headquartered company specialising in non-fiction books. He has recently taken up a position as Head of Content for Windmill Lane. Walsh is also a part-time lecturer in the School of Journalism at Dublin City University. Previous roles include Deputy Ireland Editor for The Times, Business Editor of The Irish Examiner, Markets Correspondent at Reuters and Researcher at the BBC. His biography of Peter Sutherland, ‘The Globalist’ was published by Harper Collins. Walsh has an MA in International Political Economy from University College Cork and a Postgraduate Diploma in print journalism.