From a publishing and communications background, Liz Evers worked on the Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) programme between 2018 and 2023, researching and writing DIB entries, primarily on contemporary figures. She was also the project's copy editor and co-editor of Irish lives in America (RIA, 2021), a collection of fifty biographies of Irish emigrants to the US, with Dr Niav Gallagher.
McCullough, John Edward (1832–1885), actor, was born on 14 November 1832 in the family home in the townland of Blakes in Dunboe, Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, the second of four children (one boy, three girls) to James McCullough, a presbyterian small farmer, and his wife Mary. Mary died…