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The Royal Irish Academy is hosting an exhibition in celebration of Irish women running from St Brigid’s Day (1 February) to International Women’s Day (8 March). One of the remarkable women featured is Constance Markievicz.
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The 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 highwayman. His trial was well attended by ladies enamoured of his romantic image.
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A two day workshop and symposium dedicated to researching and uncovering the historical lives of Irish sporting men and women will take place 11–12 November 2022 in Belfast.
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Academy partners with Google to launch virtual tour.
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'Dublin Documents', a Library exhibition highlighting items from the Haliday collection, will run from 9 January to 5 May 2017.
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As part of the RIA lunchtime series ‘Sisters’, Dr Gabrielle M. Ashford this Wednesday presents her lecture 'Ties that endure – the lives and correspondence of three eighteenth-century sisters – Katherine Conolly, Jane Bonnell and Mary Jones' at Academy House.
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To mark the publication of Ireland: A voice among the nations , read about William Warnock below, Ireland's first ambassador to India.
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Selected by Dr Anthony Harvey of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources (DMLCS), Virgilius Maro Grammaticus was an enigmatic author and a gifted coiner of new Latin words. His biography is part of a series of DIB entries selected your reading pleasure during...
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This teaching resource for second-level history, based on the Documents on Irish Foreign Policy (DIFP) series, uses original documents to explore Ireland's experience of the Second World War; the 'Emergency'.
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In this month’s Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Eoin Kinsella marks the centenary of the legislation that formally established the Irish Defence Forces.
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The Becker Wives by Mary Lavin,1949.
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This week’s Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks is Bligeard Sraide published in 1983 by Michael Davitt, which established Davitt as one of the most innovative poets in the Irish language.
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We are commemorating the100th anniversary of Sheila Tinney's birth one of our first female Members on 15th January 2018.
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Address by Seamus Heaney at the launch in Belfast on 16 December 2009 of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols and online, Cambridge University Press, 2009).
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This evening (Tues 10 Dec), Fintan O'Toole delivers a lecture 'Biography and history: the case of the Sheridans' at the RIA as part of a celebratory evening marking ten years since the first volumes of the DIB were published. Below is the DIB entry for...
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Selected by the DIB's Turlough O'Riordan, doctor James Deeny was a leading public health figure in Ireland, and internationally, with the World Health Organisation. Widely respected for his scientifically rigorous medical research and his public policy accomplishments, Deeny's career illustrates the global nature of public...
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In the final article of our three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we look at the development of ‘public health’ in Ireland, considering key figures in the area of tuberculosis eradication: Kathleen Lynn (1874–1955) and Pearl Dunlevy (1909–2002).
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Read the latest DIB blog.
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Men of the West by Seán Keating, 1917
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Girl Carrying Grasses, by Patrick Scott 1958
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Ryan made and lost a fortune leasing aircraft before recovering it all by kick-starting low fares air travel.
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Thirty-nine lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in December 2018, our eighteenth online update.
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Dungannon born Margaret Noble is better known in India as Sister Nivedita, educator and political activist. Read the DIB entry for her by Maurice Hayes.
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Suffragist, nationalist and medical practitioner, Kathleen Lynn, is among the remarkable women featured in the RIA's exhibition 'A celebration of Irish women'
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