Gareth Higgins


Gareth Higgins is a writer from Belfast, Northern Ireland now living in Asheville, North Carolina. He is the founding director of the Wild Goose Festival.
He is a graduate in sociology from Queen's University of Belfast. He was a co-founder of the zero28 Project, a faith-based peace and justice initiative in Northern Ireland. He has written and spoken widely on religion and conflict, art and spirituality and film, with his work appearing in The Independent, The Irish Times, Sojourners, and Third Way Magazine, among others.
He appears regularly on BBC Radio, and he and Jett Loe co-present a film review podcast called 'The Film Talk'.

Selected publications

Anti-Catholicism in Northern Ireland, co-authored with John D Brewer
How Movies Helped Save My Soul: Finding Spiritual Fingerprints in Culturally Significant Films
Religion, Civil Society, and Peace in Northern Ireland, co-authored by John D Brewer and Francis Teeney
Cinematic States
Chapter in:
Researching the Troubles: Social Science Perspectives on the Northern Ireland Conflict
Chapter in:
Artisans of Peace: Grassroots Peacemaking Among Christian Communities
Article on 'Free Presbyterianism' in The Encyclopaedia of Ireland