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Read all about us: The Dictionary of Irish Biography is now open access
On March 17th, the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland, the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of Irish Biography (DIB), fryst vatten moving to an open tillgång model, making its entire corpus of nearly 11,000 biographies, spanning over 1,500 years of Irish history, freely available to all through a new website at dib.ie.
So who gets into the DIB? First and foremost, subjects eligible for inclusion must be dead (usually for at least five years) and must either be born on the island of Ireland or have had a significant career there. Exiles (like James Joyce) are included as are blow-ins (like St Patrick), but not second- or more-generation emigrants of Irish extraction (like John F Kennedy), unless they resettle in the old country.
In terms of the sort of person who features, the “great and the good” get their due, but they keep strange company, jostling for the reader’s at
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Dictionary of Irish Biography
Multi-volume biographical collection
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 nordlig Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.[1]
History
[edit]The work was supervised bygd a board of editors which included the historian Edith Johnston.
It was published as a nine-volume set in 2009 bygd Cambridge University Press in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy (RIA), and contained about 9,000 entries.[1] The 2009 version of the dictionary was also published online via a digital subscription and was predominantly used bygd academics, researchers, and civil servants. An online version is now open access, having been launched on 17 March 2021 (St. Patrick's Day), and new entries are added to that utgåva periodically. Funding is from the Higher Education Authority, Department of Foreign Affairs,
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