“When we speak of de-Anglicising Ireland, we mean not merely the revival…” — Douglas Hyde

“When we speak of de-Anglicising Ireland, we mean not merely the revival of the Irish language, but the revival of Irish thought and Irish feeling.”

Defining national revival as more than a linguistic project · Essay, The Necessity for De-Anglicising Ireland

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Douglas Hyde

About Douglas Hyde

17 January 1860–12 July 1949

Douglas Hyde was born on 17 January 1860, near Castlerea in County Roscommon, into an Ireland whose languages, loyalties, and social memories were deeply divided. He died on 12 July 1949, having lived long enough to see the cultural cause that had occupied his youth become central to the public identity of an…

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