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DIB entries of the day: Lollie and Lily Yeats
Wednesday, 3 April 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Lucy Collins delivered her lecture '"Who will ever say again that poetry does not pay?": The Yeats Sisters and the Cuala Press ' at Academy House.
DIB entry of the day: Hanna Sheehy Skeffington
Wednesday, 27 March 2019As part of the current RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Margaret Ward today delivers her lecture ‘“A precious boon” in difficult times – Hanna Sheehy Skeffington and her sisters’ at Academy House. To accompany that...
The DIB on RTÉ – Fr Patrick Peyton
Thursday, 21 March 2019An Esras Films documentary about Fr Patrick Peyton aired on RTE 1 on Thursday March 21 at 22:15. Dr Kate O'Malley of the DIB is a contributor. Read the DIB entry on the 'Rosary Priest', by Deirdre Bryan and Maureen...
Republic to Republic DIB entry: John A. Costello
Tuesday, 12 March 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...
Celebrating International Women's Day 2019
Friday, 8 March 2019To mark International Women's Day we publish below one of our most recent entries by a woman, about a woman. Read about the fascinating life of one of Ireland's foremost writers Maeve Binchy (1939–2012), novelist and...
Thirty-nine new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography
Tuesday, 15 January 2019Thirty-nine lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in December 2018, our eighteenth online update.
Thirty-eight new lives just added to the DIB online
Monday, 9 July 2018Thirty-eight new lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in June 2018, our seventeenth online update.
The tercentenary of the 1718 migration from Ulster – the Craighead family
Thursday, 28 June 2018The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England.
The tercentenary of the 1718 migration from Ulster – James McGregor
Monday, 18 June 2018The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England. Hundreds of people from the North of Ireland travelled to America,...
The tercentenary of the 1718 migration from Ulster
Friday, 8 June 2018The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England.