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A collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy this database contains over 9,000 signed biographical articles in fields.
The product of 25 years of research, this new edition of The Dictionary of Irish Biography features a Glossary, illustrations, and 1,700 brief.
The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) was originally proposed in the early 1980s; Dr Linde Lunney began compiling data on possible entries.

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The Dictionary of Irish Biographyis the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It contains over 9,000signed biographical articles which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including:

architecture
arts
engineering
journalism
law
medicine
politics
religion
science
sport

The Dictionary of Irish Biography contains detailed biographical articles on the following women who feature in the exhibitionPath Breaking Women of NUI Galway: 1912-1922 and beyond:

Ada English (1875-1944)
Alice Perry (1885-1969)
Mary Donovan O'Sullivan (1887-1966)
Emily Anderson (1891-1962)
Máirín De Valera (1912-1984)
Nora Niland (1913-1988)
Caitlín Maude (1941-1982)

Access to the online version of the Dictionary of Irish Biographyis available here.The 9-volume print set is available for consultation in the Library at General Reference (920.0415 DIC).

Collection Development

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Read all about us: The Dictionary of Irish Biography is now open access

On March 17th, the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), is moving to an open access model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographies, spanning over 1,500 years of Irish history, freely available to all through a new website at dib.ie.

So who gets into the DIB? First and foremost, subjects eligible for inclusion must be dead (usually for at least five years) and must either be born on the island of Ireland or have had a significant career there. Exiles (like James Joyce) are included as are blow-ins (like St Patrick), but not second- or more-generation emigrants of Irish extraction (like John F Kennedy), unless they resettle in the old country.

In terms of the sort of person who features, the “great and the good” get their due, but they keep strange company, jostling for the reader’s attention alongside entertainers, eccentrics, martyrs (religious or otherwise), desperados and impover

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Portal:Ireland/Selected biography archive

Some of these are featured articles about Irish people who appear on the Portal:Ireland

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Éamon de Valera (; born Edward George de Valera, 14 October 1882 – 29 August 1975) was one of the dominant political figures in 20th century Ireland. Co-owner of one of the Irish Press Newspapers, he served in public office from 1917 to 1973, holding the various Irish prime ministerial and presidential offices. He was a significant leader of Ireland's struggle for independence from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century, and the Republicananti-Treaty opposition in the ensuing Irish Civil War. After the formation of Fianna Fáil, his militant republicanism moderated towards conservatism. De Valera is also often cited as the principal author of the Constitution of Ireland.

At various times a teacherof mathematicsand a politician, he served three times as Irish head of government; as President of Dáil Éireann, as the second President of the Executive Cou