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Dr Ruth Fleischmann was born in Cork in 1942 as the eldest of five children of the composer and conductor Aloys Fleischmann and his wife Anne née Madden. She graduated from University College Cork in 1963 and continued her studies at the German University of Tübingen. She was awarded a PhD by University College Cork in 1983. From 1981 until her retirement in 2007, Fleischmann held a lectureship in the English Department of the University of Bielefeld in Germany. She lives in Germany, has written extensively on Irish literature, and is the editor and author of several books on Joan Denise Moriarty and members of the Fleischmann family.

Siân Ferguson is a professional Labanotator, director, dancer, and choreographer. She trained at the Laban Centre for Dance in London, the City College of New York, and the Dance Notation Bureau in New York, completing an MA in Dance Research & Reconstruction in 1987 and a Professional Notator Certification in 1992. She has taught at Stanford University, SUNY Purchase, City College of New York, and Hofstra University and worked as Paul Taylor's Company Notator for five years. She has taught adults at Dance Theatre of Ireland and children at Encore! School of Performing Arts in Dublin, where she founded a programme in Tumbling for Tots. She is currently retired and living in the Bay Area of California.

Dr László Felföldi is the head of the Folk Dance Department at the Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and a member of a number of distinguished professional cultural organisations. His work centres on Hungarian folk dance traditions and those of Hungarian national minorities in Eastern Europe.

Maria Ann Emra was born on 8 October 1835 in Downton, Wilshire to the Reverend John Emra, perpetual curate of Redlynch, Somerset, and Maria Lydia née Symes. Her mother died a few days after her birth, and in 1839 her father married Frances Anne Atkinson. From this second marriage, Maria had eight half-siblings. One of them, Alice Emra, was author of a novel entitled The Dark Cavern; or, Harry’s Obedience. Maria Ann Emra never married. She died in Woodford, Essex on 7 March 1904.

Russian ballet dancer and the first director of the Irish National Ballet School.

Patricia Durcan (née Cochrane) was born in Belfast and attended the Jim Johnson School of Dance in that city.