Ireland -- Biography -- Dictionaries
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A Compendium of Irish Biography: Comprising Sketches of Distinguished Irishmen, Eminent Persons Connected With Ireland By Office or By Their Writings (Dublin: M. H. Gill, 1878), by Alfred Webb (HTML with commentary at libraryireland.com)- Dictionary of Irish Biography (free online edition) (HTML at dib.ie)
- A Dictionary of Printers and Booksellers in England, Scotland and Ireland, and of Foreign Printers of English Books, 1557-1640 (London: Printed for the Bibliographical Society, 1910), by R. B. McKerrow, Harry Gidney Aldis, Robert Bowes, E. R. McC. Dix, E. Gordon Duff, Strickland Gibson, G. J. Gray, Falconer Madan, and Henry R. Plomer (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
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Filed under: Ireland -- Biography- History of the Diocese of Ferns (Waterford: Downey and Co., 1916), by William H. Grattan Flood
- Brontëana: The Rev. Patrick Bronte, A.B., His Collected Works and Life (Bingley: T. Harrison and Sons, 1898), by Patrick Brontë, ed. by J. Horsfall Turner (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Landowners of Ireland: An Alphabetical List of the Owners of Estates of 500 acres or 500 Pounds Valuation and Upwards in Ireland, With the Acreage and Valuation in Each County (Dublin : Hodges, Foster, and Figgis, ca. 1878), by U. H. Hussey De Burgh
- The Irish Penny Magazine (partial serial archives)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- Early Memories: Some Chapters of Autobiography (Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1923), by John Butler Yeats, contrib. by W. B. Yeats
- The Confession of Saint Patrick, by Saint Patrick (HTML at CCEL)
- Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington, Irish Feminist (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, c1986), by Leah Levenson and Jerry H. Natterstad (Epub with commentary at Syracuse)
- Personal Sketches of His Own Times (3 volumes; London: H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830-1832), by Jonah Barrington
- Personal Sketches of His Own Times (New York: Redfield, 1853), by Jonah Barrington
- In Times of Peril: Leaves From the Diary of Nurse Linda Kearns from Easter Week, 1916, to Mountjoy, 1921 (Dublin: The Talbot Press Ltd.; London: T. F. Unwin Ltd., 1922), by Linda Kearns, ed. by Annie M. P. Smithson (page images at Villanova)
- Recollections of an Irish Doctor (London: Religious Tract Society, 1911), by Lombe Atthill (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Irish Rebels in English Prisons: A Record of Prison Life (New York: P. J. Kenedy, 1899), by Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Life of Theobald Wolfe Tone, Founder of the United Irish Society, and Adjutant General and Chef de Brigade in the Service of the French and Batavian Republics (2 volumes; Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1826), by Theobald Wolfe Tone and William Theobald Wolfe Tone (page images at HathiTrust)
- Behind the Scenes: Yeats, Horniman, and the Struggle for the Abbey Theatre (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Adrian Frazier (HTML at UC Press)
- Illustrious Irishwomen: Being Memoirs of Some of the Most Noted Irishwomen From the Earliest Ages to the Present Century (2 volumes; London: Tinsley Bros., 1877), by E. Owens Blackburne
- Dictionary of World Biography (fifth edition, c2018), by Barry O. Jones (multiple formats at ANU E Press)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1855), by Parke Godwin (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Cyclopedia of Universal Biography: A Record of the Names of the Most Eminent Men of the World (Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: A. S. Barnes and Co.; Cincinnati: H. W. Derby, 1856), by Parke Godwin
- Hand-Book of Universal Biography (Putnam's Home Cyclopedia v4; New York: G. P. Putnam, 1852), by Parke Godwin
- An Historical and Critical Dictionary, Selected and Abridged from the Great Work of Peter Bayle; With a Life of Bayle (4 volumes; London: Printed for Hunt and Clarke, 1826), by Pierre Bayle
- Men and Women of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries (15th edition; London: G. Routledge and sons, 1899), ed. by Victor Plarr (page images at HathiTrust)
- An Universal, Historical, Geographical, Chronological and Poetical Dictionary (2 volumes; London: Printed for J. Hartley et al., 1703) (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines (4 volumes; London: John Murray, 1877-1887), ed. by William Smith and Henry Wace
- A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography and Literature to the End of the Sixth Century A.D., with an Account of the Principal Sects and Heresies (based on the 1911 John Murray edition), ed. by Henry Wace and William C. Piercy (multiple formats at CCEL)
- Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (13 volumes; Edinburgh: T. and T. Clark; New York: C Scribner's Sons, 1908-1926), ed. by James Hastings, John A. Selbie, and Louis H. Gray
- Volume I (A - Art): multiple formmats at archive.org
- Volume II (Arthur - Bunyan): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume III (Burial - Confessions): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IV (Confirmation - Drama): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume V (Dravidians - Fichte): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VI (Fiction - Hyksos): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VII (Hymns - Liberty): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume VIII (Life and Death - Mulla): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume IX (Mundas - Phrygians): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume X (Picts - Sacraments): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XI (Sacrifice - Sudra): multiple formats at archive.org
- Volume XII (Suffering - Zwingli): multiple formats at archive.org
- Index volume: multiple formats at archive.org
- Compilation of Abbreviations and Terms (1993), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
- Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising (Cleveland: G. M. Rewell, 1887), by William J. Simmons (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)
- Who's Who of the Colored Race: A General Biographical Dictionary of Men and Women of African Descent ("volume 1" only volume published; 1915), ed. by Frank Lincoln Mather
- Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800 (online edition, 2008), by Neil Jeffares (PDF files with commentary at pastellists.com)
- Australian Dictionary of Biography (online edition) (HTML in Australia)
- A Dictionary of Medieval Romance And Romance Writers (London: G. Routledge and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., c1913), by Lewis Spence (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Biographie Nationale, by Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-arts de Belgique (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online (in English and French) (searchable HTML at biographi.ca)
- The Chinese Reader's Manual: A Handbook of Biographical, Historical, Mythological, and General Literary Reference (reprinted from the edition of 1874; London: Probsthain and Co.; Shanghai: American Presbyterian Mission Press, 1910), by William Frederick Mayers (page images at HathiTrust)
- Diccionario Geografico, Estadístico, Historico, de la Isla de Cuba (4 volumes in Spanish; 1863-1866), by Jacobo de la Pezuela (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dansk Biografisk Lexikon: Tillige Omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814 (19 volumes; Copenhagen: F. Hegel and son, 1887-1905), ed. by Carl Frederik Bricka (HTML and page images at Projekt Runeberg)
- The Dictionary of Falklands Biography, Including South Georgia (online edition), ed. by David Tatham (HTML at falklandsbiographies.org)
- Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Magyar Írók Névtára;: Életrajzi és Kónyvészeti Adatok gyüjteménye (in Hungarian; Pozsonyban: Nirschy Ferenc könyunyomdája Pozsonyban, 1876), ed. by Moenich Károly and Vutkovich Sándor (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of Indian Biography (London: Swan Sonnenschein and Co., 1906), by C. E. Buckland (multiple formats at archive.org)
- The Biographical Dictionary of Iowa (electronic edition, c2009), ed. by David Hudson, Marvin Bergman, and Loren N. Horton (searchable HTML at Iowa)
- A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (16 volumes; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1973-1993), by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (page images at HathiTrust)
- Dictionary of New Zealand Biography (electronic edition) (HTML in New Zealand)
- Hvem er Hvem? Haandbok Over Samtidige Norske Maens og Kvinder (in Norwegian; Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800 (16 volumes; Carbondale and Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, c1973-1993), by Philip H. Highfill, Kalman A. Burnim, and Edward A. Langhans (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Dictionary of Printers and Printing: With the Progress of Literature, Ancient and Modern, Bibliographical Illustrations, Etc. Etc. (London: H. Johnson; et al., 1839), by C. H. Timperley
- The Dictionary of Falklands Biography, Including South Georgia (online edition), ed. by David Tatham (HTML at falklandsbiographies.org)
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