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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.
The DIB & the Cunningham Medal
Tuesday, 7 March 2017Read the DIB entry on William Mossop, and his son William, both engravers and designers of medals, by Daniel Beaumont and David Murphy, below.
The Haliday collection holds over 200 documents from the Guild of St. Anne; a selection are currently on display as part of the Library's exhibition 'Dublin Documents: highlights from Charles Haliday's manuscript...
New lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography – Josephine Hart
Thursday, 2 February 2017Thirty-eight new lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography in December 2016.
Charles Haliday, "an early riser", and the RIA Library
Thursday, 19 January 2017'Dublin Documents', a Library exhibition highlighting items from the Haliday collection, will run from 9 January to 5 May 2017.
DIB Women on Walls: Sheila Tinney
Tuesday, 6 December 2016‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...
DIB Women on Walls: Françoise Henry
Tuesday, 6 December 2016‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for...