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Valentin Iremonger, Irish poet and diplomat
Monday, 19 February 2018To celebrate the centenary of Valentin Iremonger's birth we are posting his entry in the Dictionary of Irish Biography by Bridget Hourican
100th anniversary of the birth of Sheila Tinney, MRIA
Friday, 12 January 2018We are commemorating the100th anniversary of Sheila Tinney's birth one of our first female Members on 15th January 2018.
Fifty-seven new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online
Monday, 8 January 2018Amongst the 57 new lives added to the DIB online in December 2017, our third batch of ‘Missing Persons’, you can read about the architect Hebert Simms (1898–1948), Theosophist and man of letters.
Maria Edgeworth's 250th anniversary
Tuesday, 19 December 2017The 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), novelist, essayist, and educationist is on 1st January 2018.
DIB lives: Conor Cruise O'Brien
Friday, 3 November 2017Marking the centenary of his birth, 3 November 1917, we post the Dictionary of Irish Biography entry on Conor Cruise O'Brien (d. 2008) by Frank Callanan.
Thomas Ashe
Tuesday, 19 September 2017To mark the centenary of the death of Thomas Ashe on 25 September 1917 we have published online his biography from our project the Dictionary of Irish Biography.
Thirty-eight new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online
Tuesday, 1 August 2017A range of fascinating lives feature in the June 2017 update to the Dictionary of Irish Biography, which comprises those who died between the years 2010 and 2011.
The Haliday Collection & the DIB: J. P. Prendergast
Tuesday, 11 April 2017John Patrick Prendergast, author of The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (1863), supported the publication of Haliday's Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin (1882), and recorded details of Haliday's life for posterity.
The Haliday Collection & the DIB
Wednesday, 22 March 2017"‘No ydle person or vaccabonde shall repayre or hawnte within the same shire … upon payne of hanging, onles he have juste cawse"*
The DIB and the Six Nations: Moss Keane
Wednesday, 8 March 2017Hope springs eternal, annually, in the oldest rugby championship in the world.