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John Hughes Monument to William Gladstone
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Busáras, 1948
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This week’s Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks is Stewart Parker’s Pentecost , first performed in 1987.
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The ragged trousered philanthropists , a seminal account of working class life, influenced the course of post-war Britain.
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The DIB is publishing its entry for Nora Barnacle, life-partner of James Joyce. The couple had their first date on 16 June 1904, a date immortalised in his novel Ulysses (1922) and thereafter celebrated as 'Bloomsday'.
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Another new 'mssing persons' entry to the DIB is Nicholas Nolan (pictured above holding gloves), secretary to the Government and secretary of the Department of the Taoiseach (1961–72). A painstakingly efficient bureaucrat, Nolan was sometimes lampooned as 'Meticulous Nicholas'.
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Selected by Bláithín Ní Chatháin of the Atlantic Philanthropies Archive Project of the Digital Repository of Ireland ,* American philanthropist Asenath Nicholson came to Ireland during the famine years to support the poor. Her two books from the time provide a vital record of the...
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The Dictionary of Irish Biography has added thirty new entries to its corpus of nearly 11,000 entries. These include stage school founder Billie Barry (1927–2014); priest and historian Patrick Corish (1921–2013); property developer Tom Gilmartin (1935–2013); Savita Halappanavar (1981–2012), whose death by 'medical misadventure' was...
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Seacht mBua an Éirí Amach, by Pádraic Ó Conaire, 1918
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Línte Liombó (Lines from limbo) by Seán Ó Ríordáin, 1971
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Proud son of Dublin's North Wall community, a member of one of Ireland's most successful musical exports, Gatley enjoyed a successful stage and tv career before his death in 2009.
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To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth on 18 April 1949, we are publishing a number of our entries of figures involved in Irish foreign policy in the decades leading up to it, all of...
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To mark the start of the 2019 Rugby World Cup, we publish below the DIB entry on Sir Charles Burton Barrington (1848–1943), integral to the establishment of Rugby Football in Ireland, by Shaun Boylan.
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I gcomhar le Fiontar & Scoil na Gaeilge, DCU agus Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge , tá beathaisnéis Ernie O'Malley aistrithe mar chomóradh ar Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2020.
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Our series of explorers continues with Thomas Heazle Parke, the first Irishman known to have crossed the continent of Africa. He once saved a man’s life by sucking arrow poison into his own mouth.
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In the first of a new series of monthly blog posts drawing on the riches of the Dictionary of Irish Biography , Liz Evers charts the arrival of jazz in the 1910s and the evolution of the Irish jazz scene over the past century –...
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Elizabeth Bowen, The Demon Lover and Other Stories, 1945
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Dé Luain By Eoghan Ó Tuairisc, 1966
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John Patrick Prendergast, author of The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland (1863), supported the publication of Haliday's Scandinavian kingdom of Dublin (1882), and recorded details of Haliday's life for posterity.
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Today's entry is Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (d. 1198), overking of Connacht and high-king of Ireland, written by Ailbhe Mac Shamhráin.
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To mark Samhain we present the biography of Alice Kyteler, the first recorded person to be condemned for sorcery in Ireland.
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Selected by the DIB’s Terry Clavin, Henry MacCormac’s work in mitigating the worst effects of the 1832 Asian cholera epidemic provides inspiration for our times. His entry is part of our #LockdownReading series.
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We continue our series on alcohol in the DIB with famed temperance crusader Theobald Mathew.
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Read the latest DIB monthly blog.
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Art and Architecture of Ireland reviewed in the Irish Independent.
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