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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 June 2019.
- Beckett, Mary (1926–2013), writer
- Boland, Harry (1925–2013), businessman
- Brugha, Máire MacSwiney (1918–2012), teacher, author and charity worker
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Halpin (Halpine), Charles Graham (1829–1868)
by Paul RouseHalpin (Halpine), Charles Graham (1829–68), writer and journalist, was born 20 November 1829 at Oldcastle, Co. Meath, son of the Rev. Nicholas John Halpin (qv), clergyman and newspaper editor, and Anne Halpin (née Grehan). Educated at TCD, he graduated in 1846, having studied medicine and then law. During this time he had written occasionally for the press, and, on the death of his father, pursued a career in journalism in Dublin and London. In 1851 he emigrated to America and became private sec...
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