Sir,
—The editors of the Royal Irish Academy’s Dictionary of IrishBiography hope that readers of History Ireland have enjoyed the seriesof articles entitled ‘From the files of the DIB’. We would like toacknowledge that the main source used for the article on Pádraig ÓDuinnín in the Nov./Dec. 2005 issue was Proinsias Ó Conluain agusDonncha Ó Céileachair, An Duinníneach: an tAthair Pádraig Ó Duinnín, ashaol, a shaothar agus an ré inar mhair sé (Baile Átha Cliath: Sáirséalagus Dill, 1958), a work that is still in print. For reasons of spacewe do not list sources at the end of DIB articles in History Ireland asmany of these listings are quite extensive. Full listings of sourceswill, however, be given in both the hard copy and electronic versionsof the Dictionary when it is published in 2008.
—Yours etc.,
Dr JAMES QUINN
Executive Editor
Dictionary of Irish Biography