The ''Dictionary of Irish Biography'' (DIB) is a
biographical dictionary of notable
Irish people and people not born in the country who had notable careers in Ireland, including both
Northern Ireland and the
Republic of Ireland.
[Dictionary of Irish Biography 9 Volume Set](_blank)
Cambridge University Press
History
The work was supervised by a board of editors which included the historian
Edith Johnston
Edith Mary Johnston aka Edith Mary Johnston-Liik (11 July 1930 – 25 February 2008) was a historian and editor. She was the first female St. Andrews PhD student to go on to an academic career. She served on the board who created the Dictionary ...
.
It was published as a nine-volume set in 2009 by
Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the
Royal Irish Academy
The Royal Irish Academy (RIA; ga, Acadamh Ríoga na hÉireann), based in Dublin, is an academic body that promotes study in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. It is Ireland's premier List of Irish learned societies, learned socie ...
(RIA), and contained about 9,000 entries.
The 2009 version of the dictionary was also published online via a digital subscription and was predominantly used by academics, researchers, and civil servants. An online version is now
open access
Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...
, having been launched on 17 March 2021 (St. Patrick's Day), and new entries are added to that version periodically. Funding is from the
Higher Education Authority,
Department of Foreign Affairs, and
Dublin City Council Libraries. The biographies range from 200-15,000 words in length, with about 11,000 entries in total as of March 2021.
Dictionary of Irish Biography home page
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References
External links
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2009 non-fiction books
Irish Biography
Cambridge University Press books
Irish encyclopedias
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