The Dictionary of Irish Biography has added thirty new entries to its corpus of nearly 11,000 entries. These include stage school founder Billie Barry (1927–2014); priest and historian Patrick Corish (1921–2013); property developer Tom Gilmartin (1935–2013); Savita Halappanavar (1981–2012), whose death by 'medical misadventure' was a catalyst for change in Irish abortion laws; and rugby player and surgeon Jack Kyle (1926–2014).
Below is a full list of the new 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