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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...

Discover our eBook collection
Wednesday, 25 March 2020Did you know that many of our books are available in digital format? Here’s the list.

Saint Patrick in the DIB
Tuesday, 17 March 2020To celebrate St Patrick's day, we publish the DIB entry on Ireland's patron saint, by Cormac Bourke.

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Ernie O'Malley
Friday, 13 March 2020I gcomhar le Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU agus Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, tá beathaisnéis Ernie O'Malley aistrithe mar chomóradh ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2020.

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Maud Gonne MacBride
Wednesday, 11 March 2020I gcomhar le Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU agus Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, tá beathaisnéis Maud Gonne MacBride aistrithe mar chomóradh ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2020.

Seachtain na Gaeilge: Mícheál Ó Coileáin
Monday, 9 March 2020I gcomhar le Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU agus Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge, tá beathaisnéis Mhíchíl Uí Choileáin aistrithe mar chomóradh ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2020.

Irish would-be assassin Violet Gibson makes feature film debut
Thursday, 5 March 2020Forgotten for many years, the Irish woman who shot Benito Mussolini is the subject of a new film premiering at the Dublin International Film Festival this month. Read the DIB's recent entry on her remarkable life.