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DIB entry of the day: Rupert Guinness
Wednesday, 15 May 2019To complement the current Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) project exhibition on Iveagh House at the National Archives of Ireland, here is the Dictionary's entry on Rupert Guinness, 2nd Earl of Iveagh by Linde...

DIB entry of the day: Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair
Friday, 3 May 2019Today's entry is Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (d. 1198), overking of Connacht and high-king of Ireland, written by Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin.

DIB entry of the day: Aífe
Thursday, 2 May 2019To mark the 850th anniversary of the beginning of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland we are publishing the biographies of key figures associated with this pivotal event in Irish history.Today's entry is that of his...

DIB entry of the day: Richard de Clare ('Strongbow')
Wednesday, 1 May 2019To mark the 850th anniversary of the beginning of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland we are publishing the DIB biographies of some key figures associated with this pivotal event in Irish history, starting with Richard...

DIB marks twenty-year anniversary of Mary Raftery’s ‘States of fear’
Thursday, 25 April 2019To commemorate the twenty-year anniversary of the documentary States of fear, which exposed endemic sexual, physical and psychological abuse in Ireland's industrial schools system, the Dictionary publishes an abridged...

Republic to Republic DIB entry: Sheila Murphy
Wednesday, 17 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth in 1949, we are publishing entries on figures involved in Irish foreign policy in the decades leading...

DIB entry of the day: Mary Leadbeater
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and...

Republic to Republic DIB entry: Éamon de Valera
Tuesday, 16 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy...

Republic to Republic DIB entry: John J. Hearne
Monday, 15 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy...

The DIB and Century Ireland
Saturday, 13 April 2019On the centenary of the Amritsar Massacre read the DIB entry on Sir Michael O'Dwyer who was Lieutenant Governor of the Punjab in 1919, written by David Murphy.