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The Dictionary of Irish Biography, a collaborative project between Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy, is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published for Ireland. It contains over 9,000 signed biographical articles which describe and assess the careers of subjects in all fields of endeavour, including politics, law, religion, literature, journalism, architecture, painting, music, the stage, science, medicine, engineering, entertainment and sport.
The following lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography Online in December 2011. Twenty-eight of these new subjects died in the twenty-first century, and eleven in the twentieth century.
- Brugha, Ruairí (1917-2006), politician and businessman
- Bryans, Robert Harbinson (1928-2005), memoirist and travel writer
- Dolan, (Una) Kathleen (1921-2003), radio announcer
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Barrington, Thomas Joseph (1916–2000)
by Gerry McElroyBarrington, Thomas Joseph (1916–2000), civil servant, was born 16 May 1916 in Dublin, the eldest of five children of Thomas Barrington (qv), civil servant, of Corrofin, Co. Clare, and his wife, Eileen, née Bracken, the half-sister of Brendan Bracken (qv) and daughter of J. K. Bracken (qv) of Templemore, Co. Tipperary, a founding member of the GAA. He attended Belvedere College, Dublin, and when his father died when he was thirteen, Belvedere waived his school fees. However, the family was left i...
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