Douglas Hyde - Softcover

Dunleavy, Gareth W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838779751 ISBN 13: 9780838779750

Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S., 1975

Synopsis

(Douglas Hyde (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 12 July 1949), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (The Pleasant Little Branch), was an Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland at the time.
Hyde was born at Longford House in Castlerea in County Roscommon. His father, was Church of Ireland rector of Kilmactranny, County Sligo from 1852 to 1867, and it was here that Hyde spent his early years. His passion for Irish, already a language in severe decline, led him to found the Gaelic League, or in Irish, Conradh na Gaedhilge, in the hope of saving it from extinction in 1893. Many of the new generation of Irish leaders who played a central role in the fight for Irish independence in the early twentieth century, including Patrick Pearse, Éamon de Valera (who married his Irish teacher Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin), Michael Collins, and Ernest Blythe first became politicised and passionate about Irish independence through their involvement in Conradh na Gaedhilge or (Gaelic League).
Hyde was inaugurated as the first President of Ireland on 26 June 1938, in the first inaugural ceremony in the nation's history)

About this edition

• Publisher: Bucknell University Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1975
• ISBN 10: 0838779751
• ISBN 13: 9780838779750
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92