Dictionary of Irish Biography

DIB Women on Walls: Eleanor Knott

‘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: Phyllis Clinch

'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...

New lives in the DIB: Stephen Gately

Proud son of Dublin's North Wall community, a member of one of Ireland's most successful musical exports, Gatley enjoyed a successful stage and tv career before his death in 2009.

The DIB in the news: The battle of Cable Street

Eighty years ago, on 4 October 1936, Dublin-born Morry Levitas helped prevent a fascist march through London’s East End through his part in the battle of Cable Street.

New Lives in the DIB: Edward Delaney

Edward Delaney, sculptor, who died 22 September 2009, executed two of Dublin’s most familiar public monuments: the bronze statues of Wolfe Tone and of Thomas Davis.

The DIB in the news: Discovery of HMS Terror

Recently, one of the greatest prizes in marine archaeology – HMS Terror – was located in Terror Bay, south of King William Island, Nunavut, Canada.

New lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography – Mick Lally

One of the 41 new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in June 2016.

Tony Ryan: wizard of the skies

Ryan made and lost a fortune leasing aircraft before recovering it all by kick-starting low fares air travel.

New lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online

The June 2016 supplement has been added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) online. Consisting of 41 lives, most of whom died in the years 2009 and 2010. 

Vere Thomas St Leger Goold (1853–1909) reached the 1879 mens final at Wimbledon, he remains the only Wimbledon finalist convicted of murder.