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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 June 2011. Most of these new subjects died between 2003 and 2005, but two of them died in the twentieth century and are included as co-subjects:
- Allen, Dave (1936-2005), comedian
- Baird, Ernest Austin (1930-2003), unionist politician and businessman
- Brett, (Sir) Charles Edward Bainbridge (1928-2005), solicitor, architectural historian
- Clotworthy, Pauline (Cecily Elizabeth)(1920-2004), teacher of fashion design
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Beckett, James Camlin (1912–1996)
by Alvin JacksonBeckett, James Camlin (1912–96), historian, was born 8 February 1912 in Belfast, third son of Alfred Beckett, linen salesman, and Frances Lucy Beckett (née Bushell). He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution, and at QUB, from where he graduated (1934) with a first in modern history. He became a schoolmaster, and taught for eleven years at the Belfast Royal Academy; in 1945, after completing an MA dissertation on the legislation governing protestant dissenters in eighteenth-cent...
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