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Favourite DIB Lives: Róisín Walsh, Dublin City chief librarian
Wednesday, 22 April 2020Selected by Dr Kate O'Malley, managing editor of the DIB, Róisín Walsh (1889–1949) was Dublin's first chief librarian, as well as a feminist and republican. This biography is part of our 'Favourite DIB lives' series...
Favourite DIB lives: Dorothy Stopford-Price, dochtúir
Monday, 20 April 2020Selected by Dr Déirdre D’Auria, Eagarthóir Cúnta, Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, paediatrician Dorothy Stopford-Price conducted groundbreaking research into the treatment of TB in children. Her entry is presented here as...
Favourite DIB lives: R. M. Barrington, ornithologist
Tuesday, 14 April 2020Selected by Dr Eoin Kinsella (Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), R. M. Barrington (1849–1915) teamed up with lighthouse keepers around the country to develop Irish ornithology's seminal work on bird migration. This...
Favourite DIB lives at Easter: the Pearse brothers
Tuesday, 14 April 2020Selected and illustrated by David Rooney (illustrator of the DIB book: 1916 Portraits and Lives), Easter rising leader Patrick Pearse and his brother William were executed a day apart for their roles in the 1916...
Favourite DIB lives: Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Monday, 6 April 2020Selected by Dr Anthony Harvey of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS), Virgilius Maro Grammaticus was an enigmatic author and a gifted coiner of new Latin words. His biography is part of a series...
Favourite DIB lives: John Philip Holland, submarine inventor
Monday, 6 April 2020Selected by the DIB's Dr Niav Gallagher, John Philip Holland was the inventor of the submarine, a vessel initially rejected by the US navy as ‘a fantastic scheme of a civilian landsman’. Holland's biography is part of a...
Favourite DIB lives: Dr Noel Browne, politician and physician
Sunday, 5 April 2020Selected by friend of the DIB, historian Dr Niamh Puirséil, Dr Noel Browne is celebrated for his efforts to combat TB and to deliver free healthcare to mothers and children during his time as minister for health (1948–...
Favourite DIB lives: John Atherton, woeful sinner
Friday, 3 April 2020Selected by RIA historian Dr John Gibney (Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), John Atherton was an infamous seventeenth-century cleric. Atherton's biography is part of a series of DIB entries selected for your reading...
The DIB and the first Seanad election
Thursday, 2 April 2020The last RIA Library blog post by Siobhán Fitzpatrick, who retires this week, was on The First Seanad Éireann. To complement it we are publishing below the DIB entry on Jennie Wyse Power (1858–1941), nationalist and...
Favourite DIB lives: Mike Butt, restaurateur
Wednesday, 1 April 2020Selected by RIA historian Dr Michael Kennedy (Documents on Irish Foreign Policy), Mahmood 'Mike' Butt is best known as the man who introduced Ireland to curry. Butt's biography is the first in a new series of DIB...