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Having worked with the Dictionary of Irish Biography since 1995, Dr James Quinn has retired as Managing Editor. His successor, Dr Eoin Kinsella, has previously worked with the RIA on a number of projects.
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Harry Clarke’s Eve of St Agnes 1924
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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 and the current series of lunchtime lectures on Irish diplomacy, we're publishing the DIB biographies of Josephine McNeill (pictured above) and Mary Tinney, two of Ireland's first female diplomats.
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The last RIA Library blog post by Siobhán Fitzpatrick, who retires this week, was on The First Seanad Éireann . To complement it we are publishing below the DIB entry on Jennie Wyse Power (1858–1941), nationalist and suffragist, one of the first four women elected...
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The Royal Irish Academy has developed teaching material that is of use in the classroom. Designed to be both stimulating to students and integral to the relevant school curriculum, the goal is to motivate and inspire primary, second level and third level students on the...
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Constructing an interactive network graph of early modern Ireland
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How the writing of Irish History led to the making of Irish History.
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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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Happy Christmas! We hope to evoke the festive spirit by publishing the DIB entry of actress and Christmas panto stalwart, Maureen Potter, by Lawrence William White.
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The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has created a new resource for Leaving Cert history students comprised of forty biographies of major Irish figures from Daniel O'Connell to Seamus Heaney.
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First launched in 2009, the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has moved to an ‘open access’ model making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographical entries freely available to all users for the first time at www.dib.ie .
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The Winding Stair, WB Yeats,1933
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Aer Lingus Summer Timetable, 1955 by Guus Melai
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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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To mark the start of the 2019 Dublin Horse Show and an exhibition celebrating 100 years of women showjumpers at the RDS, we are publishing the DIB entry on Iris Kellett, one of Ireland’s most celebrated, and decorated, equestrians.
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A member of the first team of paralympians to represent Ireland, Joan Horan competed in archery and swimming at the inaugural 1960 Paralympics in Rome. Read her DIB entry, 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. Described as ‘king of the cat burglars’ or ‘the human fly’, Gulston stole more than £35 million worth of jewels and furs. His high...
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Join us on 4 October to learn more about our research projects, library and publications
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1927, Ardnacrusha HydroelectricScheme
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