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The Dictionary of Irish Biography is Ireland’s national biographical dictionary. Devised, researched, written and edited under the auspices of the Royal Irish Academy, its online edition covers over 10,000 lives.
Throughout 2019 the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) project is curating monthly exhibitions at the National Archives of Ireland. The May exhibition is about Iveagh House, the former townhouse of...
To 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. We have already...
To 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. Yesterday we...
