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The Royal Irish Academy‘s Dictionary of Irish Biography has won the prestigious PROSE* award from the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division is part of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) in the Multivolume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences category.

The Irish Times is currently featuring extracts from the book in its weekend section and a reader from Santa Monica in Californian is blogging his way through the 9700 entries.

The Dictionary can be accessed online here.

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The PROSE Awards annually recognize the very best in professional and scholarly publishing by bringing attention to distinguished books, journals, and electronic content in over 40 categories. Judged by peer publishers, librarians, and medical professionals since 1976, the PROSE Awards are extraordinary for their breadth and depth.

From the Prose Awards Website.

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