The Dictionary of Irish Biography (the DIB), published in nine volumes and online in 2009, is a work of truly historic significance. The model for all books of this kind, the old British Dictionary of National Biography (the DNB), appeared in instalments between 1885 and 1900 – and was not superseded until 2004, […]
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Brian Friel,
Cambridge University Press,
Charles Haughey,
Ernest Forbes,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman's Journal,
James McGuire,
James Quinn,
John McGahern,
Máire O'Neill,
Molly Allgood,
National Library of Ireland,
Oxford DNB,
Patrick Henchy,
Rosie Hackett,
Royal Irish Academy,
Shemus
by Felix M. Larkin, vice-chair of the NLI Society and member of the NLI’s statutory Readers Advisory Committee. His book Terror and Discord: The Shemus Cartoons in the Freeman’s Journal, 1920–1924 was published by A&A Farmar in 2009 In December 2006 the National Library of Ireland acquired some 250 original drawings of the Shemus cartoons […]
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Anglo-Irish Treaty,
Cartoons,
David Lloyd George,
Eamon de Valera,
Ernest Forbes,
Ernest Forbes Holgate,
Erskine Childers,
Felix M. Larkin,
Freeman's Journal,
Irish War of Independence,
Martin Fitzgerald,
Prints and Drawings,
R. Hamilton Edwards,
Shemus,
Shemus Cartoon Collection,
Shemus Cartoons,
Sir Edward Carson,
Sir Hamar Greenwood,
Sir James Craig,
Terror and Discord
by Abigail Rieley, writer and journalist Hidden in the National Library’s collection of prints and drawings is the face of a murder victim. Maria Louisa Kirwan died exactly 160 years ago. She was killed by her husband on Ireland’s Eye, the barren little island that lies just off Howth in North County Dublin on September […]
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Abigail Rieley,
Dr. Jaspar Robert Joly,
Freeman's Journal,
Henry Brocas,
Ireland's Eye,
Ireland's Eye Murder,
Isaac Butt,
Jaspar Joly,
Joly Collection,
Kirwan Collection,
Maria Kirwan,
Maria Louisa Kirwan,
Murder,
Newspapers,
Prints & Drawings,
Theresa Kenny,
William Bourke Kirwan,
William Kirwan