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Prelims of the 2009 edition

Reviews and Awards

Dictionary of Irish Biography - 2010 The Information Services Group Award for an Outstanding Work of Reference

The Information Services Group and the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals has awarded Dictionary of Irish Biography the 2010 Information Services Award for an Outstanding Work of Reference in the Electronic Resource and E-books category last November 12, 2010.

Dictionary of Irish Biography - From the Earliest Times to the Year 2002

The Association of American Publishers - Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division has awarded the Dictionary of Irish Biography edited by James McGuire and James Quinn the 2009 American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (PROSE) for Best Multivolume Reference work in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The PROSE awards for Excellence recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content, published annually in 28 disciplines. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

" VERDICT This is an essential reference work for the study of Ireland. The database is affordable for all types of libraries and offers just the right complement of bells and whistles...the breadth of content here is invaluable and will attract scholars, journalists, teachers, and general readers alike. "

-- Library Journal, 15 April 2012

" The accessible scholarly plenitude provided by this tremendous resource should be a source of great pride to its editors, advisory boards, staff, contributors, Cambridge University Press and the Royal Irish Academy. "

-- Catriona Crowe, Irish Times

" The most significant Irish publication of the 21st century so far. "

-- Taoiseach Brian Cowen, in the Irish Times

" Truly a piece of work, Ireland?s living sea scrolls, the story of a people reflected in the lives of a timy but outstanding fraction of them. "

-- Ray O'Hanlon, Irish Echo

" The Dictionary of Irish Biography represents, overall, a triumph of imaginative scholarship as well as painstaking generalship on the part of the editors, whose commitment is above praise. "

-- Roy Foster, Times Literary Supplement

" A milestone in Irish historical scholarship. "

-- Charles Lysaght, Irish Independent

" Without doubt, the biggest thing in books in Ireland for years. "

-- John Spain, Irish Independent

" A new dictionary of Irish biography includes around 2,000 Ulster people, some of whose stories will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand on end. "

-- Margaret Canning, Belfast Telegraph

" The newly published Dictionary of Irish Biography is truly the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical dictionary yet published in relation to Irish persons. "

-- Kildare Nationalist

RTE Television

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Photos from launch event at the Irish Consulate in New York City

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