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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...
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.