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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 Papua...
DIB Explorers: Arthur Montagu Gwynn, doctor and naturalist
Tuesday, 28 July 2020A medical doctor, naturalist and explorer, the intrepid Arthur Montagu Gwynn was described by one of his granddaughters as ‘having a gun under his bed, a bullet hole in his arm and crocodile skins under his stairs’.
DIB Explorers: William Lamport, inspiration for Zorro
Thursday, 23 July 2020Our next DIB explorer is William Lamport, who worked as a spy in Italy and Catalonia and plotted to seize control of Mexico City with a militia of indigenous mine workers.
DIB Explorers: Thomas Heazle Parke, army surgeon and African traveller
Monday, 20 July 2020Our series of explorers continues with Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman known to have crossed the continent of Africa. He once saved a man’s life by sucking arrow poison into his own mouth.
DIB Explorers: Annie S. D. Maunder, astronomer
Thursday, 16 July 2020We continue our series of intrepid explorers with celebrated astronomer Annie Scott Dill Maunder who travelled the world observing and recording celestial phenomena and is known for her work on sunspot activity and...
DIB Explorers: Lady Heath, aviator
Tuesday, 14 July 2020With so many holiday plans on hold this summer, the DIB has compiled a selection of intrepid explorers we can accompany on their exciting travels. We start the series with Lady Heath, the first woman to complete a solo...
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.