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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…
New DIB and Grangegorman Histories project
12 May 2021
‘Grangegorman lives’ will feature over sixty biographies from the Dictionary of Irish Biography. The Grangegorman Histories project has curated a selection of DIB biographies of men and women connected to the area. The biographies, which will be shared over the coming…
New biographies published of Garret FitzGerald, Ian Paisley and more
15 March 2021
The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) launches its open access website with a selection of new biographies and extensive revisions of high profile political and cultural figures. Written by DIB historian Patrick Maume, substantial new entries for…
Open access Dictionary of Irish Biography launched
15 March 2021
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. Officially launched today (St Patrick's Day, 17 March) by Taoiseach…