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Monday, 29 April 2024Educators, matriarchs, artists, entrepreneurs and activists: the Dictionary of Irish Biography publishes 33 entries
McDaid's of Dublin: chasing the drunken muse
Tuesday, 9 April 2024Read the latest DIB monthly blog.
‘The will of the people’: putting the referendum in the Irish constitution
Tuesday, 5 March 2024The latest DIB Monthly Blog.
Pirates of west Cork
Tuesday, 5 December 2023The latest in an ongoing series of Dictionary of Irish Biography blog posts.
Spotlight on the ‘Mandarins’ of the Irish Civil Service
Monday, 6 November 2023Read the latest DIB blog
MACMORRIS and the DIB
Monday, 9 October 2023Constructing an interactive network graph of early modern Ireland
A rising tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 2)
Tuesday, 12 September 2023In this month’s two-part Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Niav Gallagher highlights the careers of several Irish women who made important contributions to the natural sciences in the nineteenth century, despite the...
A Rising Tide: women and the natural sciences in nineteenth-century Ireland (Part 1)
Tuesday, 5 September 2023In this month’s Dictionary of Irish Biography blog, Niav Gallagher discusses a group of pioneering Irish woman botanists. Various barriers limited their participation in the natural sciences, yet these intrepid women –...