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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.
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 .
Douglas Hyde (1860–1949) Senator (1922–1925, 1938) 25 June 1938 24 June 1945 Fianna Fáil: 1938: Fine Gael: 2 Seán T. O'Kelly (1882–1966) Tánaiste (1932–1945) 25 June 1945 24 June 1959 Fianna Fáil: 1945: Independent 1952: 3 Éamon de Valera (1882–1975) Taoiseach (1932–1948, 1951–1954, 1957–1959) 25 June 1959 24 June 1973 ...
Hymn tune. O Mary of Graces is a traditionally Catholic Marian hymn based on an ancient Irish prayer to Mary, the mother of Jesus.Two versions of the hymn exist based on differing translations made of the original prayer by Priest Douglas Hyde and J. Rafferty, with the Hyde version being more popular.
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 ...
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 ...
When Douglas Hyde was invited to the planned Pan-Celtic Congress of 1900—to be held in Dublin—as a delegate of the League, the Coiste Gnótha (executive committee) refused to send any representative, though Hyde might attend as an individual if he wished. Hyde reluctantly declined to attend. [39]
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.