Dictionary of Irish Biography
2 Volume HB Set
- Editors:
- James McGuire, University College Dublin
- James Quinn, University College Dublin
- Date Published: September 2018
- availability: Available
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108587907
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Published in collaboration with the Royal Irish Academy, The Dictionary of Irish Biography is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work available both in print and online for Ireland. Bringing the collection up to date, volumes 10 and 11 include substantial and original biographical articles on a variety of important figures in the recent Irish past. Most notably discussed are the novelist John McGahern, politicians Charles J. Haughey, David Ervine and Mo Mowlam, the footballer George Best, the businessman Tony Ryan, the journalist and writer Nuala O'Faolain, the architect Sam Stephenson, the snooker player Alex Higgins, and the comedian Dave Allen. This is an indispensable resource for anyone interested in this period and covers over 600 prominent figures in recent Irish history.
Read more- Includes over 150 additional 'missing persons' not included in the previous 9 volumes
- An accurate and up-to-date resource covering all of the significant Irish-born figures who died between 2003–10
- Provides substantial and comprehensive biographical treatments of all its subjects
Reviews & endorsements
'… [a] monumental and handsomely produced … [book] … These volumes have the cumulative effect of being deeply moving: an archive of lives lived, and captured by means of careful and scrupulous memorialisation.' Neil Hegarty, The Irish Times
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- Date Published: September 2018
- format: Multiple copy pack
- isbn: 9781108587907
- length: 1613 pages
- dimensions: 248 x 185 x 74 mm
- weight: 3.31kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Lists of: editors, advisors, contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Guide to entries
List of abbreviations
A-Z entries.
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