Carsten Krieger's unique images of the Irish landscape are highly acclaimed and he is the author of several books of his spectacular landscape photography. His photographs have also been published in magazines and calendars and he exhibits in Ireland and abroad on a regular basis.

Dr Peter Harbison is honorary academic editor of the Royal Irish Academy, Professor of Archaeology at the Royal Hibernian Academy, and an honorary fellow of Trinity College, Dublin. He studied archaeology at UCD and the University of Marburg and was editor of
Ireland of the Welcomes for nine years. He is the author of some thirty-five books on Irish archaeology and art, published on both sides of the Atlantic, including Guide to National and Historic Monuments of Ireland, Cooper’s Ireland, The High Crosses of Ireland, and Pre-Christian Ireland.