There are currently seven Board Directors, each with expertise in a variety of professional fields. Board members may serve for not more than two 3-year terms and are replaced on rotation.
William Fagan
Appointed Chair January 2022. William is a retired public servant, photographer and photographic historian. In his public service career William served in the Departments of Labour, Finance and the Public Service. He was involved in the establishment of the Office of the Ombudsman where he became Director in 1987. He subsequently served as Director of Consumer Affairs for 8 years. In 1998 William joined the private sector where he became Director of Regulatory Affairs and Communications at Chorus Communications (shareholders Independent News and Media and Liberty Media) where he was involved in the introduction of broadband and digital TV into Ireland. He served on the board of ICT Ireland, a digital industry body established by IBEC. In 2006 William went to work for the Government of Qatar where he established a telecoms regulator which liberalised the Qatari telecoms market. William has worked as a consultant specialising in the areas of broadband and regulatory training. He is a member of the Institute of International and European Affairs ( IIEA) and the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), the Dublin Camera Club, the Leica Society (UK), the LHSA – the International Leica Society (US) and the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain (PCCGB). He has written articles on photography, photographic equipment and photographic history for magazines in the UK, US and Ireland and is currently researching the history of photography in Ireland from 1840 to the present. Joined Board August 2019.
Yetti Redmond
Yetti Redmond is an award winning senior producer – formerly with RTÉ Radio 1. As well as producing high quality programmes over 20 years with the station, she was lead producer on various public events relating to Ireland’s decade of centenaries. She was the creative force behind the RTÉ World War 1 Roadshow (Trinity College: 2014), RTÉ Road to the Rising (O’Connell St & surrounds: 2015) and RTÉ Reflecting the Rising (Spanning much of Dublin city centre: 2016). She has developed many radio series including The History Show, Miriam Meets and specialist series on food and health. Her weekday credits include The Gay Byrne Show, Liveline and the Arts Show. Prior to joining RTÉ, she worked as a print and broadcast journalist in Dublin and Belfast, worked in public relations in Dublin and for three years, ran her own publicity business in New Zealand. Joined Board October 2016.
Stephanie McBride
Stephanie McBride is an academic, broadcaster and critic who writes and lectures on film, media and visual culture. Formerly Assistant Professor in the School of Communications at DCU, Tutor in arts, literature and film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, she has also taught in Visual Culture at NCAD. Selected publications include The Cinema of Place/The Place of Cinema, Ireland into Film:Felicia’s Journey. Her Intermedia column appeared in The Irish Times; a film and tv columnist with CIRCA Art Magazine, where she also edited a number of issues on film, art education, art and science; a contributor to Irish Arts Review. Joined Board October 2018.
Luke Gibbons
Luke Gibbons, is Professor of Irish Literary and Cultural Studies at the School of English, Drama and Media Studies, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, and formerly taught at the University of Notre Dame, USA, and Dublin City University. He has published widely on Irish culture, film, literature, and the visual arts, as well as on aesthetics and politics. His many publications include ‘Ghostly Light: Spectres of Modernity in James Joyce’s and John Huston’s ‘The Dead’, in A Companion to James Joyce, (Richard Brown, ed., Blackwell, 2007) and ‘Famished Ghosts: Bloom, Bible Wars, and “U.P. up” in Joyce’s Dublin’, Dublin James Joyce Journal, 2 (2010). Joined Board September 2018.
Audrey Brennan
Audrey Brennan has many years experience working at a senior level in the areas of fundraising and media relations for several arts organisations, including the Royal Hibernian Academy, The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin Contemporary 2011 and The Hennessy Literary Awards. From 2009 to 2014, she was a member of the board of Circa Art Magazine. In 2015, she was awarded a Masters in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship by Trinity College Dublin. Her studies included extensive research into revenue generation by commercial enterprises within art galleries. She also works as an art advisor to private collectors.
Joined the board September 2019.
Tom Burke
Tom Burke has been making film and video projects of varying scales and styles for over a decade. Working primarily in the documentary form, he often assumes a shooting director role, and more often than not will be the editor of his own films. At Areaman Productions from 2007 to 2017, Tom was able to mix factual television projects with more aesthetically driven Irish Film Board funded short form docs. In 2017, he established Broadstone Films in order to pursue his feature documentary and fiction project ambitions. Joined the Board January 2020.
Orla Fitzpatrick
Orla is a photographic historian from Dublin, Ireland. Her PhD from Ulster University was on the topic of ‘Modernism, modernity and the Irish photographic book, 1922-1949.’ Publications include articles on Irish photographic history and material culture for publications such as ‘Éire-Ireland’ and ‘Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies’. She has also curated several photographic exhibitions and produced a photographic monograph for the National Library of Ireland. Her acclaimed blog www.jacolette.com covers vernacular Irish photography. She is a regular contributor to ‘Source: Photographic Review.’ She has worked in the area of librarianship since 1994. Joined the board January 2020.