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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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The Royal Irish Academy is marking Brigid’s Day (1 Feb) with an exhibition of remarkable Irish women at Academy House. To mark this event, the DIB is publishing our entry for the woman (or goddess) herself: Brigit, by Noel Kissane.
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The DIB has curated a selection of its most notorious rogues – pirates, blackmailers, thieves and murderers – for your delectation. Next in our catalogue of crime is the infamous William Burke, who turned to murder to earn a lucrative fee providing dead bodies to...
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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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Irish Pavilion, New York World’s Fair, 1939 by Michael Scott
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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 celebrate the publication by the Ulster Historical Foundation of Transatlantic lives: the Irish experience in Colonial America , we publish the DIB entry on Anne Bonney, by Frances Clarke.
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Selected by RIA historian Dr John Gibney ( Documents on Irish Foreign Policy ), John Atherton was an infamous seventeenth-century cleric. Atherton's biography is part of a series of DIB entries selected for your reading pleasure during this challenging time.
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The last explorer in our series is Beatrice Ethel Grimshaw, who started her career as a sports journalist and long-distance cyclist before travelling extensively in the South Seas and Australasia and settling in Papua New Guinea to write exotic novels and grow tobacco.
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In this month’s Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Niav Gallagher discusses a group of pioneering Irish woman botanists. Various barriers limited their participation in the natural sciences, yet these intrepid women – Ellen Hutchins, Katherine Kane and Mary Ball – made lasting contributions through their...
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1923, Decoration.
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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 Ireland: a voice among the nations by John Gibney, Michael Kennedy and Kate O'Malley, we are publishing the intriguing biography of Máire O'Brien who also features in the book. O'Brien will appear for the first time in the DIB later...
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Selected by Dr Joseph Flahive of the Dictionary of Medieval Latin from Celtic Sources , John Scottus Eriugena was a prolific medieval scholar of Latin and Greek, 'rediscovered' in the nineteenth century. His biography is presented here as part of our ‘Favourite DIB lives’ series...
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In the second of our three-part series on public health and infectious disease, we consider life-saving developments in sanitation in Dublin through the biographies of Parke Neville (1812–86), civil engineer, architect and surveyor and medical officer Sir Charles Cameron (1830–1921).
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We have now covered 30 artworks in the Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks series. This project in association with the Irish Times, brings together two Academy research projects: the Dictionary of Irish Biography and the Art and Architecture of Ireland.
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Sybil Connolly on the cover of 'Life' magazine, 1953
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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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Read about the life of Elizabeth Jackson, the mother of America's seventh president, Andrew Jackson, who hailed from Co. Antrim, by Dr Linde Lunney.
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