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Everybody’s doing it – the Dictionary of Irish biography* and national biography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2015

Lawrence Goldman
Lawrence Goldman*
Affiliation:
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
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Everybody’s doing it. The Americans, the British and the Australians have gone online. The Spanish are planning a blockbuster; the Dutch would like to begin afresh; and the Germans are developing a European portal through which all of these different national projects – and many more – can be accessed. Meanwhile, the Irish have just published their own, in nine volumes of print as well as online. Why should national biographical dictionaries suddenly be in vogue?

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Review article
Information
Irish Historical Studies , Volume 37 , Issue 145 , May 2010 , pp. 107 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Irish Historical Studies Publications Ltd 2010

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Footnotes

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Dictionary of Irish biography: from the earliest times to the year 2002. Edited by James McGuire and James Quinn. 9 vols. Pp xlviii, 989; xxx, 1148; xxx, 1132; xxx, 1087; xxx, 1076; xxx, 993; xxx, 1126; xxx, 1115; xxx, 1118. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2009. £775.

References

1 http://dib.cambridge.org

2 Thomas, Keith, Changing conceptions of national biography: the Oxford DNB in historical perspective (Cambridge, 2005), p. 38CrossRefGoogle Scholar.