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Professor Mary O'Dowd, MRIA, will today deliver a lecture 'The Shackleton sisters: Irish Quaker women c. 1750-1850' the fifth and final event in the current lunchtime series, 'Sisters', celebrating the lives and achievements of five families of sisters who have made their mark on Irish...
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On 13 October 2019 John Henry Newman, cardinal and founder of the Catholic University of Ireland (now UCD), will be canonised by Pope Francis. To mark this occasion, we are publishing the DIB's Newman entry by Colin Barr.
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Selected by Dr Eoin Kinsella ( Documents on Irish Foreign Policy ), R. M. Barrington (1849–1915) teamed up with lighthouse keepers around the country to develop Irish ornithology's seminal work on bird migration. This biography is part of a series selected for your reading pleasure...
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At a time when Ireland's relationship with alcohol is increasingly under the spotlight, the DIB has complied a selection of biographies dealing with drinking and responses to it. We start our series with John MacBride, a ‘drunken, vainglorious lout’ exemplifying the best and the worst...
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The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.
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This weekend marks the start of the Royal Irish Academy’s collaboration with the Irish Times entitled Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks.
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A complete set of prints from our recent publication 1916 Portraits and Lives is now on display in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.
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This month marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of the German scholar and revolutionary socialist Karl Marx on 5 May 1818. At intervals throughout the month, we will feature articles from the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography on four Irish-born persons whose...
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To mark the seventy-fifth anniversary of D-Day the DIB is publishing its entry on Columbanus Deegan, one of the many Irish men and women who took part in the intense final push in 1944 in France.
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Florence Stoker, Oscar Wilde's 'first love' and the woman whose canny management of her husband Bram's estate helped make 'Dracula' a household name, is among the sixty-six 'missing persons' (twenty-eight of whom are women) newly added to the DIB this month .
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Selected by Dr Juliana Adelman of DCU, and introduced by Kevin Kenny (Shackleton Autumn School) and Professor Jim McAdam (Shackleton Scholarship Committee), Ernest Shackleton had a gift for coping with crisis and isolation in extreme conditions. Dr Adelman’s new podcast ‘What would Shackleton do?’ considers...
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Our series Grangegorman lives continues with Billy in the Bowl a notorious beggar and robber who lived on the Northside of Dublin.
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The Trial of Roger Casement by Sir John Lavery 1930
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Irisches Tagebuch by Heinrich Böll, 1957
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Recently, one of the greatest prizes in marine archaeology – HMS Terror – was located in Terror Bay, south of King William Island, Nunavut, Canada.
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An Esras Films documentary about Fr Patrick Peyton aired on RTE 1 on Thursday March 21 at 22:15. Dr Kate O'Malley of the DIB is a contributor. Read the DIB entry on the 'Rosary Priest', by Deirdre Bryan and Maureen Murphy.
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Join the authors of our forthcoming book Ireland: a voice among the nations and explore how Ireland has engaged with the wider world over the past century.
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Another fascinating missing person recently added to the DIB, Mary Young (aka Jenny Diver), was a thief from the north of Ireland who gained notoriety as head of a gang of pickpockets in early 1700s London.
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Dictionary of Irish Biography entry for Kathleen Lonsdale (1903–71), X-ray crystallographer and pacifist by Enda Leaney and Linde Lunney.
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If you missed our first Research Open Day, you can watch it back now
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Katie Roche by Teresa Deevy, 1936 at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin
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Read the DIB entry on William Mossop, and his son William, both engravers and designers of medals, by Daniel Beaumont and David Murphy, below.
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To mark the seventieth anniversary of the declaration of the republic and Ireland’s departure from the Commonwealth in 1949, we are publishing entries on figures involved in Irish foreign policy in the decades leading up to it, all of whom feature in the forthcoming exhibition...
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Read the DIB entries for the eccentric Durdin-Robertson siblings who established their own goddess cult in the bowels of Huntington castle in Carlow, and are among the subjects of a new exhibition 'Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth' at the Irish Architectural Archive .
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