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Douglas Hyde

Gaelic League Donates Archives to NUIG

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
December / January 2018

December 1, 2017 by 1 Comment

A new chapter in Irish language scholarship is about to begin as the National University of Ireland at Galway has received and plans to digitize the entire archives of Conradh na Gaeilge (the Gaelic League). The archives, which contain hoards of documents, press clippings, pictures, campaign materials, and letters, including personal correspondence of Douglas Hyde, Conradh na … [Read more...] about Gaelic League Donates Archives to NUIG

Ireland’s First President

By Darina Molloy, Contributor

December 1, 2017 by 7 Comments

Douglas Hyde, born in Roscommon in 1860, was a leading figure in the Gaelic revival and Ireland’s first president.   A couple of unplanned events shaped the course of Douglas Hyde’s early life. He should have been born in County Sligo, where his family resided, but instead, he arrived on January 17, 1860, in Castlerea, County Roscommon, where his mother was visiting her … [Read more...] about Ireland’s First President

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