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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.
Favourite DIB lives: Thomas Phillips, military surveyor and map-maker
Monday, 11 May 2020Selected by Sarah Gearty, cartographic editor of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Thomas Phillips was a seventeenth-century military surveyor. His biography is part of our Favourite DIB lives #LockdownReading series.
Favourite DIB lives: John Ferrar, historian, printer and public man
Friday, 8 May 2020Selected by Jennifer Moore of the Irish Historic Towns Atlas, John Ferrar made a significant contribution to printing in Ireland, as well as the writing of local histories. His biography is part of our Favourite DIB...