Douglas Hyde

Gaelic League Donates Archives to NUIG

By Adam Farley, Deputy Editor
December / January 2018

December 1, 2017 by By <a href="https://irishamerica.com/2011/12/adam-farley/">Adam Farley</a>, Deputy Editor<br/><a href=“https://irishamerica.com/archives/2018-archive/december-january-2018/”>December / January 2018</a> 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 </a> By Darina Molloy, Contributor<br/> 5 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

September 27, 2000

Thirty-three years after the 1967 film adaptation of James Joyce’s epic novel Ulysses was released, Ireland finally decided to lift the ban on the film. Many consider Joyce’s great novel to be “unfilmable.” However, Joseph Strick, an idealistic American director, decided to take up the project. His adaptation, much like the book, drew much controversy. Many scenes were cut at its screening at the Cannes Film Festival. In Ireland, film censors unilaterally banned the film saying that it was “subversive to public morality.” Ulysses was the second film to have the ban lifted, following Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1999.

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