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Alcohol in the DIB: Theobald Mathew
Monday, 19 October 2020We continue our series on alcohol in the DIB with famed temperance crusader Theobald Mathew.
Máirtín Ó Cadhain in the DIB
Sunday, 18 October 2020Today, 18 October 2020, marks fifty years since the death of Máirtín Ó Cadhain, one of Ireland’s foremost literary figures of the twentieth century.
Alcohol in the DIB: Constance Smith
Thursday, 15 October 2020After bagging an enviable studio contract and choice film roles, Constance Smith was undone by Hollywood casting politics and subsided tragically into alcohol addiction.
Alcohol in the DIB: Matt Talbot
Monday, 12 October 2020Our series continues with Matt Talbot, Ireland’s most celebrated reformed alcoholic. Talbot achieved posthumous fame by embracing a life of pious austerity with the same lack of moderation that had formerly...
Alcohol in the DIB: Lady Catherine Morgan
Wednesday, 7 October 2020A victim of her husband’s alcoholism, and unwilling to play the expected role of the patiently suffering wife, Lady Catherine Morgan became the focus of nineteenth-century Ireland’s most sensational divorce case.
Alcohol in the DIB: John MacBride
Monday, 5 October 2020At a time when Ireland's relationship with alcohol is increasingly under the spotlight, the DIB has complied a selection of biographies dealing with drinking and responses to it. We start our series with John...
DIFP second-level teaching resource on Ireland and World War Two
Tuesday, 29 September 2020This teaching resource for second-level history, based on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, uses original documents to explore Ireland's experience of the Second World War; the 'Emergency'.
DIB launches Leaving Cert history resource
Monday, 21 September 2020The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has created a new resource for Leaving Cert history students comprised of forty biographies of major Irish figures from Daniel O'Connell to Seamus Heaney.
Educational resources for primary, second and third level students
Tuesday, 8 September 2020The Royal Irish Academy has developed teaching material that is of use in the classroom. Designed to be both stimulating to students and integral to the relevant school curriculum, the goal is to motivate and inspire...
DIB Explorers: Beatrice Grimshaw, author and traveller
Thursday, 30 July 2020The last explorer in our series is Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw, who started her career as a sports journalist and long-distance cyclist before travelling extensively in the South Seas and Australasia and settling in...