Dictionary of Irish Biography

Interview with ‘Irish Sporting Lives’ editors Terry Clavin and Turlough O’Riordan (Books Ireland Magazine)

Forgotten heroes, unforgettable failures, the tragic, talented lives cut short – would they feel disappointed to be lost to the archives or do they think

Dictionary of Irish Biography adds 41 new entries

The Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) has published 41 new entries, with a mixture of contemporary figures and ‘missing persons’ – interesting older figures who

Dictionary of Irish Biography publishes 36 new entries

The DIB has published its latest collection of new entries online, adding thirty-six new lives to its corpus of nearly 11,000.

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);