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| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
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Publication date | November 2009 |
| ISBN | 9780521633314 |
TheDictionary of Irish Biography (DIB) is abiographical dictionary of notableIrish people and people not born in the country who had notable careers in Ireland, including bothNorthern Ireland and theRepublic of Ireland.[1]
The work was supervised by a board of editors which included the historianEdith Johnston.
It was published as a nine-volume set in 2009 byCambridge University Press in collaboration with theRoyal 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 by academics, researchers, and civil servants. An online version is nowopen access, having been launched on 17 March 2021 (St. Patrick's Day), and new entries are added to that version periodically. Funding is from theHigher Education Authority,Department of Foreign Affairs, andDublin City Council Libraries.[2] The biographies range from 200-15,000 words in length, with about 11,000 entries in total as of March 2021.[3][4][5]
For subjects to be eligible for inclusion, they must have been dead for at least five years and must either be born on the island of Ireland or have had a significant career there.[5]
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