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Our newest Irish family history record set Thom’s Irish Who’s Who is a treasure trove of information. Alexander Thom & Co. are best known for their “Dublin City & County Directories” but they made a brief venture into biographical notices with their 1923 “Irish Who’s Who”, which is now available fully indexed and digitised in the Irish directories category of our Irish family history records.
The directory contains 2500 names over 280 pages detailing those who, in the publisher’s words were:
“conspicuous in the Nation’s History, and includes leaders of thought and action in all fields of enlightenment and civilization”.
The record set was compiled at a tumultuous time in Irish history, only two years after the creation of the Irish Free State and barely a year after the cessation of Civil War in Ireland. As a result this publication includes listings for all the important figures in the formation of the Irish Free State.
William Butler Yeat’s entry can be seen below, 1923 was the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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Our newest Irish family history record set Thom’s Irish Who’s Who is a treasure trove of information. Alexander Thom & Co. are best known for their “Dublin City & County Directories” but they made a brief venture into biographical notices with their 1923 “Irish Who’s Who”, which is now available fully indexed and digitised in the Irish directories category of our Irish family history records.
The directory contains 2500 names over 280 pages detailing those who, in the publisher’s words were:
“conspicuous in the Nation’s History, and includes leaders of thought and action in all fields of enlightenment and civilization”.
The record set was compiled at a tumultuous time in Irish history, only two years after the creation of the Irish Free State and barely a year after the cessation of Civil War in Ireland. As a result this publication includes listings for all the important figures in the formation of the Irish Free State.
William Butler Yeat’s entry can be seen below, 1923 was the year in which he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.