The Dictionary of Irish Biography from the earliest times to the year 2002, edited by James McGuire and James Quinn, was published on 18 November 2009 by Cambridge University Press in nine volumes and online. It has been devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography project (click here for Dictionary of Irish Biography project).

Covering 9,700 lives in 9,014 articles, the Dictionary is an indispensable work of reference for scholars, journalists, broadcasters, diplomats, and the general reader interested in Ireland’s past or in biography. It is an educational resource of huge potential.

For information on ordering the print edition or subscribing to the online edition, please visit www.dib.ie

‘Publicaton of the RIA’s Dictionary of Irish Biography is an epoch-making event in the history of Irish scholarship. It changes the state of knowledge in the twenty-frist century as decidedly as the Ordnance Survey did in the nineteenth’.
Seamus Heaney