Douglas Hyde

Douglas Hyde (Irish Dubhghlas de hide; born January 17, 1860 in Castlerea, Ireland, † July 12, 1949 in Dublin) was an Irish poet and 1938 to 1945 the first President of Ireland.

Biography

Douglas Hyde was the son of a clergyman of the Church of Ireland. After finishing school, he studied law, but was not subsequently worked as a lawyer. He founded in 1893 the " Gaelic League " for resuscitation and care of the Irish language, which he chaired until 1915 as president. In 1891 he received an appointment as professor of modern languages ​​at the University of New Brunswick in Canada, but returned two years later returned to Ireland. From 1909 to 1932 he lectured as a professor of Modern Irish at University College Dublin. He was active as president of the " Irish National Literary Society " and was from 1938 to 1945 the first President of Ireland. Hyde was familiar from his earliest youth with the Irish- Gaelic and devoted his life, in-depth studies of the Irish language and its history. He wrote an Irish literary history, wrote numerous works in Irish and rendered many texts from Irish into English.

Works

• Beside the Fire. (1890)
• The Story of Early Gaelic Literature. (1897 )
• The bursting of the bubbles and other Irish Plays. (1905)