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Dictionary of Irish Biography

The award-winning Dictionary of Irish Biography (9 vols.; Royal Irish Academy and Cambridge University Press, 2009) is the most comprehensive and authoritative biographical reference work yet published in Irish Studies, described by Seamus Heaney as an ‘epoch-making event in the history of Irish scholarship’. Using archival material in the Bodleian Library as well as biographical, literary, and other cultural sources, Sturgeon researched and wrote 95 entries (62 co-authored; 33 single-authored) for this seminal project. Among the single-authored contributions (c.1000-4500 words each), are entries on such significant cultural figures as: Richard Brinsley Sheridan; Michael William Balfe; Isaac Bickerstaffe; William Congreve; Daniel Maclise; Richard Lalor Sheil; and James Arthur O’Connor. The output is available online at http://dib.cambridge.org.