The Dictionary of Irish Biography regularly publishes new entries on important figures who have died in recent times, and on ‘missing persons’ – previously overlooked figures deserving fresh interest. Our most recent additions are listed below.
Entries published September 2021
- Barry, Billie (1927–2014), stage school founder
- Brodie, Malcolm (1926–2013), sports journalist
- Byrne, John (1919–2013), property developer
- Corish, Patrick Joseph (1921–2013), priest and historian
- Darby, John (1941–2012), social and political scientist
- Deasy, Joseph (1922-2013), Marxist writer
- Donnelly, Catherine (1948–2014), advertising copywriter
- Dunlop, Robert (1938–2014), baptist minister and ecumenist
- Fallon, Sean (1922–2013), footballer and coach
- Foreman, Philip (1923–2013), engineer and chief executive
- Gilmartin, Tom (1935–2013), property developer and businessman
- Gorman, John (1923–2014), soldier, policeman, businessman and politician
- Halappanavar, Savita (1981–2012), catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws
- Hannelly, Dympna (1922–2014), missionary nurse
- Hardiman, Áine (1926–2013), nun, teacher and community activist
- Hart, Peter (1963–2010), historian
- Hayes, Margaret (1954–2014), civil servant
- Kennedy, Kieran (1935–2013), economist
- Kyle, Jack (1926–2014), rugby player and surgeon
- Lentin, Louis (1933–2014), theatre, film and television producer and director
- McKeever, Ian (1970–2013), mountaineer and charity fundraiser
- Mould, Daphne (1920–2014), author, geologist, photographer
- Nicholson, Ernest Wilson (1938–2013), biblical scholar
- O Ceallacháin, Seán Óg (1923–2013), sports broadcaster and hurler
- O’Keeffe, Paddy (1923–2013), editor, businessman and farmer
- O’Reilly, Joan Gertrude (1924–2014), hockey player
- Reihill, John Philip (1933–2013), coal and oil importer
- Tallon, Ronald (1927–2014), architect
- Tighe, Joan (1922–2014), journalist, editor and historian
- Weaver, John (1923–2013), soldier and physician
Entries published March 2021
- Buckley, Christine (1946–2014), nurse and advocate for survivors of childhood abuse in state institutions
- FitzGerald, Garret (1926–2011), economist, politician and taoiseach
- Healy, Dermot (1947–2014), novelist, poet, memoirist and playwright
- Paisley, Ian (1926–2014), Lord Bannside, protestant revivalist and politician
- Reynolds, Albert (1932–2014), businessman, politician and taoiseach