Thirty-eight new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online
A range of lives feature in the December 2016 update, who died between the years 2008 and 2011.
Highlights include architectural historian and writer Maurice Craig, engineer and academic Bernard Crossland, cardinal and theologian Cahal Daly, political scientist Peter Mair and scholar and critic Breandán Ó Buachalla.
Figures involved in the arts include the actress and theatre producer Phyllis Ryan, folk singer Liam Clancy, writer and poetry promoter Josephine Hart, author and journalist David Marcus and rock musician Gary Moore.
The showjumper and trainer Iris Kellett and rugby and Gaelic footballer Moss Keane are joined by writer and religious commentator Louis McRedmond and trade unionist and women’s rights advocate Evelyn Owens.
This update of of thirty-eight lives can be found at dib.cambridge.org, and brings the total number of lives in the Dictionary to 10,328.
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