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A range of lives feature in the December 2015 ‘missing persons’ update to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online, comprising persons omitted from the 2009 first edition. Read the entry on Pearl Dunlevy, a tenacious public health physician who tackled childhood TB in Dublin, below.
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The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England. Hundreds of people from the North of Ireland travelled to America, often in groups together. Some of the leaders are featured...
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This week we added thirty-nine new lives to the DIB online. One of the more intriguing is Peter Gulston, a notorious thief once cursed by Sophia Loren. Read our entry by Niav Gallagher below.
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Hope springs eternal as Ireland approach their opening fixure of the 2020 Six Nations, against Scotland, on Saturday 1 February. To mark Ireland's first ever Grand Slam, in 1948, we publish the DIB entry on Karl Mullen, by Turlough O'Riordan, below.
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The 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 showy lifestyle of jewels, furs and first-class travel...
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1927, Ardnacrusha HydroelectricScheme
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'Christmas Eve' by Maeve Brennan, 1974
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‘Women on Walls' is a campaign by Accenture in partnership with the Royal Irish Academy that seeks to make women leaders visible through a series of commissioned portraits that will create a lasting cultural legacy for Ireland in 2016. Read the Dictionary of Irish Biography...
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To 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 version of its new entry for producer Mary Raftery (1957–2012) by Liz Evers.
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To mark the publication of Ireland: A voice among the nations , and John Gibney's lunchtime lecture on ‘Sinn Féin ‘diplomats’ and the Irish revolution, 1919-23’, we publish the DIB entry on Harry Boland, by the late David Fitzpatrick, below.
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Selected by RIA historian Dr Michael Kennedy ( Documents on Irish Foreign Policy ), Mahmood 'Mike' Butt is best known as the man who introduced Ireland to curry. Butt's biography is the first in a new series of DIB entries selected for your reading pleasure...
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A 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’.
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This April the Dictionary of Irish Biography is publishing 40 new entries, including a mix of contemporary figures, ‘missing persons’, specially commissioned biographies for our recently published book, Irish Sporting Lives, and five fascinating early modern women.
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The Royal Irish Academy’s Art and Architecture of Ireland project took 6 years to complete, contains over 2 million words, 3,000 pages and 1,600 years of culture.
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How did the shrine of St Valentine end up in the Carmelite Church in Dublin?
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The 250th anniversary of the birth of Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), novelist, essayist, and educationist is on 1st January 2018.
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In this month's Library Blog post, Turlough O'Riordan of the Dictionary of Irish Biography, looks at the issues surrounding the election of women to the Royal Irish Academy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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To mark the publication of A history of Ireland in 100 words here is the biography of Adomnán, who makes an appearance in the entry for the word 'Cáin', tax laws, specifically the landmark Cáin Adomnáin (law of Adomnán) decreed in 697 to secure the...
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Selected 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 lives #LockdownReading series.
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In the first of a three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we introduce the biographies of doctor John Crawford (1746–1813) and bacteriologist Adrian Stokes (1887–1927), key figures in understanding the transmission of, and developing early treatment for, yellow fever.
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The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.
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The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’Casey, 1926
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Margadh na Saoire, by Máire Mhac an tSaoi, 1956
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Vere Thomas St Leger Goold (1853–1909) reached the 1879 mens final at Wimbledon, he remains the only Wimbledon finalist convicted of murder.
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The 1718 emigration is one of the earliest known planned group migrations from Ireland. Migrants from the Bann valley founded towns in New England.
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