Thirty new entries added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography
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