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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 'Roasry Priest', by Deirdre Bryan and Maureen...
Saint Patrick in the DIB
Tuesday, 12 March 2019To celebrate St Patrick's day, we publish the DIB entry on Ireland's patron saint, by Cormac Bourke.
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...
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.
Irish United-man in Europe
Wednesday, 30 May 2018On 29 May 1968 Shay Brennan, Tony Dunne and George Best (1946–2005) became the first Irishmen to win a European Champions Cup winners medal ... read the DIB entry on Shay Brennan, By Dr Jim Shanahan, below.
Karl Marx and the DIB: 'Robert Tressell'
Monday, 21 May 2018The ragged trousered philanthropists, a seminal account of working class life, influenced the course of post-war Britain.