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Douglas Ross Hyde MRIA (Irish: Dubhghlas de hÍde; 17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949), known as An Craoibhín Aoibhinn (lit. transl. the pleasant little branch), was an Irish academic, linguist, scholar of the Irish language, politician, and diplomat who served as the first president of Ireland from June 1938 to June 1945.
Her father was a manufacturing chemist. She was introduced to Douglas Hyde by Hyde's sister, Annette. Kurtz had met Annette in Killarney. [3] Kurtz married Hyde on 10 October 1893 in Liverpool. They had two daughters, Nuala and Una. Nuala died in 1916 of tuberculosis.
Douglas Hyde [a] Mary Kate Ryan [b] 1918–1934 Seán T. O'Kelly: Phyllis Ryan [b] 1936–1966 Sinéad Ní Fhlannagáin: 1910–1975 Éamon de Valera: Ruth Ellen Dow 1925–1950 Erskine H. Childers: Rita Dudley: 1952–1974 Máirín Nic Dhiarmada: 1943–1978 Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh: Maeve Finnegan: 1955–2008 Patrick Hillery: Nicholas Robinson ...
Douglas Arnold Hyde (8 April 1911, Worthing, Sussex – 19 September 1996, Kingston upon Thames) [1] was an English political journalist and writer. Originally a communist and the news editor of the Daily Worker, he resigned in 1948 and converted to Catholicism. After his conversion, he gained an international reputation in the late 1940s and ...
David Hyde Pierce (born David Pierce; April 3, 1959) [1] is an American actor. Known for his portrayal of psychiatrist Niles Crane on the NBC sitcom Frasier from 1993 to 2004, he received four Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series as well as two Screen Actors Guild Awards .
A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
In 1945, the wheelchair-using retiring first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was judged too ill to return to his Roscommon country house, Ratra. It was decided instead to move him into the vacant residence in the grounds of the Lodge (then renamed Áras an Uachtaráin). [6] Hyde named the residence Little Ratra in honour of his old home. He ...
On a 1905 journey to the USA with Douglas Hyde, they collected twenty thousand dollars. However, they returned it for the relief of San Francisco in the aftermath of the 1906 earthquake . He remained an organiser until 1911.