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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. These 11 volumes contain fascinating short summaries and detailed assessments that document over 10,000 lives, ranging from the earliest times to 2010. Biographical subjects include: artists, scientists, lawyers, actors, musicians, writers, politicians, criminals, and saints.
The following lives were added to the Dictionary of Irish Biography Online in December 2019.
- Barnewall, Sir John (1634?–1691?), barrister and judge
- Barry, Denis (1883–1923), Irish Volunteer
- Bewley, Victor Ernest Henry (1912–2000), quaker businessman and philanthropist
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Hill, Wills 1st marquess of Downshire earl of Hillsborough (1718–1793)
by James KellyHill, Wills (1718–93), 1st marquess of Downshire, politician, was born at Fairford, Gloucestershire, on 30 May 1718, the third but only surviving son of Trevor Hill (1693–1742), 1st Viscount Hillsborough, and Mary Hill (née Rowe), the eldest daughter and co-heiress of Anthony Rowe of Muswell Hill, Middlesex, and North Aston, Oxfordshire, and widow of Sir Edmund Denton of Hillesden, Buckinghamshire.Irish and English MP Educated at Oxford University, Hillsborough maintained a lifelong connection w...
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