Michael Dillon/Lobzang Jivaka (1915–62) was a physician, a pioneer in undergoing hormone treatment and male gender affirmative surgery, and a Buddhist monastic novice.

Bill Dunn has written extensively about publishing, authors and book collecting with articles appearing in The New York Times, The Irish Times, Detroit News, A.B. Bookman’s…

TOM DUNNE is Professor Emeritus of History, and part-time Lecturer in Art History at University College Cork.

NUALA NÍ DHOMNHAILL, was the Ireland Chair of Poetry from 2001 to 2003. She is a champion of the Irish language and has been widely translated into…

In the 1890s, Hugh Dorian (1834-1914), a native of Fanaid on the Atlantic coast of north Donegal, wrote this remarkable memoir. Dorian provides extraordinary insights into…

Seamus De Faoite, a native of Killarney, was a friend and contemporary of both Bryan MacMahon and Brendan Behan. He founded the Killarney Players, who performed…

Ruth Delany has been researching the history of the Irish inland waterways for many years. She was a founder member of the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland…

Richard Douthwaite is the author of three books on economic and energy issues: The Growth Illusion, The Ecology of Money and Short Circuit.

Richard Davis born in India and educated at Trinity College Dublin, is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is the editor of…

Paul Durcan is one of Ireland’s foremost contemporary poets, known for his distinctive style.  

Patrick Devaney is a Roscommon-born teacher, poet and writer. This is his first book.

NINETTE DE VALOIS, the world-famous prima ballerina, was born Edris Stannus in 1898 and raised at Baltiboys in County Wicklow. In this autobiography, first published in…

Leland Lewis Duncan was born in Lewisham, Kent, in 1862. His father was a civil servant. Duncan and his two younger sisters enjoyed a secure middle-class…

Kildare Dobbs was born in India in October 1923, raised in Ireland, and educated in Dublin, Cambridge and London. He served in the Royal Navy during…

John Duggan is the author of Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich. 

Joan de Vere was born in Eastbourne in 1913. She was adopted by the de Veres and grew up in Curragh Chase, their ancestral home in…

Edouard de Pomiane was born in Paris, the son of Polish émirgés. One of this century’s greatest cookery writers, he lectured at the Institut Pasteur and wrote…

Brian Drummond is an employee of the ESB and worked for many years as an electrician and technical officer in Cathaleen’s Fall generating station. He has…

Dessie Doyle is a civil servant. His family has a long association with the ESB, growing up in Station Road, and with his late father Walter…

David Dickson is a Professor in Modern History in Trinity College, Dublin and has published extensively on the social, economic and cultural history of Ireland, including…