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Kathleen Lonsdale in the DIB
Friday, 3 July 2020Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–71), X-ray crystallographer and pacifist by Enda Leaney and Linde Lunney.

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 ‘...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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'...

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...