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Ireland in the European Eye: pre-publication special offer
Friday, 3 May 2019Ireland in the European Eye: pre-publication special offer to mark the 2019 Heinrich Böll Memorial Weekend.
DIB entry of the day: Aífe
Thursday, 2 May 2019To mark the 850th anniversary of the beginning of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland we are publishing the biographies of key figures associated with this pivotal event in Irish history.Today's entry is that of his...
DIB entry of the day: Richard de Clare ('Strongbow')
Wednesday, 1 May 2019To mark the 850th anniversary of the beginning of the Anglo-Norman invasion of Ireland we are publishing the DIB biographies of some key figures associated with this pivotal event in Irish history, starting with Richard...
Boxing Ballymote
Thursday, 25 April 2019This month's blog post is dedicated to the generous funders of conservation work on the Book of Ballymote. Thank you!
DRI to co-host International Digital Data Curation conference 2020
Thursday, 25 April 2019The 15th edition of the International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will be run by the Digital Curation Centre in partnership with the Digital Repository of Ireland.
DIB marks twenty-year anniversary of Mary Raftery’s ‘States of fear’
Thursday, 25 April 2019To commemorate the twenty-year anniversary of the documentary States of fear, which exposed endemic sexual, physical and psychological abuse in Ireland's industrial schools system, the Dictionary publishes an abridged...
Sisters
Wednesday, 24 April 2019Listen back to our lunchtime lecture series celebrating sisterhood and specifically the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who made their mark on Irish life.
Ireland leaves the Commonwealth, 1949
Thursday, 18 April 2019In April 1949 Ireland became a republic and left the Commonwealth. What did the Commonwealth think about it?
'Republic to Republic': A new Google exhibition by DIFP and UCD Archives on Ireland's international sovereignty from 1919 to 1949
Thursday, 18 April 2019To mark the seventieth anniversary of Ireland becoming a republic, DIFP and UCD Archives have co-curated a new online exhibition on Irish sovereignty from 1919 to 1949.
DRI Early Career Research Award
Wednesday, 17 April 2019Digital Repository of Ireland invite early career researchers to apply for a new annual Research Award worth €500.