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Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Gruaig
What’s a wicker boat got to do with hair-styles? Find out more about medieval Irish fashion in today’s entry.
Foclóir Stairiúil na Gaeilge
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Fliuch
Why might you need a helmet on a rainy day in Munster? Find out in today’s entry on the penetrating misery of an Irish downpour.
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Ríomhaire
Did you know that Saint Columba could ‘number the stars’ and predict the course of the moon? Find out more in today’s entry on star-counting.
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Caoch
Why can’t the one-eyed man be king? Find out in today’s entry on blindness, blemishing and being ‘blind drunk’!
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Grá
What exactly is a ‘love-spot’? Find out in today’s entry on affairs of the heart.
Inside ‘A history of Ireland in 100 words’: Cróga
Why does this Cú Chulainn have apples spiked on his hair? Find out in today’s entry on bravery, bloodiness and the infamous ‘warp spasm’!
New DIFP exhibition in National Archives of Ireland: Ireland joins the UN, December 1955
Our December exhibition co-curated with the National Archives of Ireland looks at Ireland’s accession to the United Nations in December 1955
Documents on Irish Foreign Policy
Halloween special: ominous birds and banshees
Discover the origins of the word ‘badhbh’ in our book A history of Ireland in 100 words
New exhibition on Joseph Walshe (1886-1956): the founding father of the Irish foreign service
The second of the monthly exhibitions we are co-curating with the National Archives of Ireland deals with the lengthy career of the founding father of the Irish…
Thirty-eight new lives just added to the DIB online
Thirty-eight new lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in June 2018, our seventeenth online update.
Dictionary of Irish Biography
DIFP X (1951-7)
Launched by Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Charles Flanagan TD
New lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography – Mick Lally
One of the 41 new lives added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography online in June 2016.