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Centenary of the Connaught Rangers Mutiny, 1920
Sunday, 28 June 2020To mark the centenary of the 1920 Connaught Rangers Mutiny, John Gibney of DIFP and Kate O'Malley of DIB both took part in a recent History Ireland Hedge School podcast.
DIB Rogues: Peter Gulston (Scott), cat burglar
Thursday, 25 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Described as ‘king of the cat burglars’ or ‘the human fly’, Gulston stole more than £35...
DIB Rogues: Margaret Caroline Rudd, forger
Monday, 22 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Our next rogue is Caroline Rudd, whose trial for forgery was one of the most...
DIB Rogues: James Maclaine, highwayman
Monday, 15 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Working with William Plunkett, Maclaine established the myth of the dashing gentleman...
DIB Rogues: William Burke, murderer
Monday, 15 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Next in our catalogue of crime is the infamous William Burke, who turned to murder to...
DIB Rogues: Chicago May, blackmailer
Wednesday, 10 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Next up is Mary Ann Duignan aka ‘Chicago May’, a one-time chorus girl who supported a...
DIB Rogues: Anne Bonney, pirate
Monday, 8 June 2020The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. We start with Anne Bonney, perhaps the most famous female pirate of all time, who ...
Favourite DIB lives: Michael Dillon, trans man, doctor, Buddhist monk, writer
Sunday, 17 May 2020Selected by the DIB's Liz Evers, Michael Dillon is a remarkable figure whose brave quest for self understanding and freedom led him to transition from female to male, West to East, Christianity to Buddhism. Dillon's...
Favourite DIB lives: Asenath Nicholson, American philanthropist
Friday, 15 May 2020Selected by Bláithín Ní Chatháin of the Atlantic Philanthropies Archive Project of the Digital Repository of Ireland,* American philanthropist Asenath Nicholson came to Ireland during the famine years to support the...
Favourite DIB lives: James Redpath, American journalist
Wednesday, 13 May 2020Selected and written by Dr Patrick Maume of the DIB, James Redpath was an American journalist and anti-slavery campaigner who became an outspoken advocate of the Land League in Ireland.