From Library Journal
This is the third of what now looks to be a once-per-decade revision of a useful reference tool. The first edition appeared in 1978, 100 years after Alfred Webb's A Compendium of Irish Biography (1878) and 50 years after John S. Crone's A Concise Dictionary of Irish Biography (1928). Meant to follow in their illustrious footsteps, this book?which contains nearly 1700 biographies, with 150 photographs?includes no living figures. "Irishness" is loosely defined as "being involved in the Irish situation," as wittily noted by Conor Cruise O'Brien in the preface. Although the first two editions did not include photographs, and Boylan has been scrupulous about adding outstanding Irish figures who have died since the last edition, libraries already owning one of the first two probably don't need this third edition. Most of the entries will also be in other, broader biographical tools, and patrons might prefer a text that includes famous living Irish. A good first purchase for general collections or for those that must be up-to-date.?Shelley Cox, Southern Illinois Univ., Carbondale
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Kurzbeschreibung
'A Dictionary of Irish Biography' is an essential reference book containing brief biographies of nearly 1,700 noteworthy and lesser-known Irish men and women. The only single volume A-Z to summarise the lives and achievements of Ireland's most distinguished people from 400A.D. to the present, its list of subjects includes hundreds of figures of literary, cultural, political, and sociological note: from Grace O'Malley (Granuaile) to Maud Gonne; from Wolfe Tone to Michael Collins; from St. Patrick to Daniel O'Connell; from Jonathan Swift to Samuel Beckett. The product of twenty-five years' research. 'A Dictionary of Irish Biography' is an invaluable reference work for teachers, librarians, and those interested in Irish history and culture.
