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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)...
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    The Douglas Hyde Gallery is a publicly funded contemporary art gallery situated within the historical setting of Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. When...
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  • Douglas Arnold Hyde (8 April 1911, Worthing, Sussex – 19 September 1996, Kingston upon Thames) was an English political journalist and writer. Originally...
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  • Hyde, Douglas (1915). Legends of Saints and Sinners (Every Irishman's Library). London: T. Fisher Unwin. Retrieved 9 November 2017. Hyde, Douglas (1890)...
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    hurling team. Named after Gaelic scholar and first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, the ground previously had a capacity of about 33,612, which was reduced...
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  • watching or playing could be expelled from the GAA. On 13 November 1938 Douglas Hyde, then President of Ireland and a patron of the GAA, attended an association...
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    "Douglas Hyde's inauguration – a signal of a new Ireland". RTÉ. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2018. "Douglas Hyde...
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    folk song tradition in Irish. One of the most significant of these was Douglas Hyde, later the first President of Ireland, whose Love Songs of Connacht was...
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    In 1945, the wheelchair-using retiring first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, was judged too ill to return to his Roscommon country house, Ratra....
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    of Ireland was instituted instead. After the inaugural presidency of Douglas Hyde, who was an interparty nominee for the office, the nominees of the Fianna...
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    "half of a human being" and hopping about on one leg with great agility. Douglas Hyde quotes Campbell's description in his collection of Irish folklore Beside...
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  • politician Douglas Hyde, Irish academic and politician, first president of Ireland Douglas Hyde (author), English political journalist and author Douglas Johnson...
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    enthusiasts of Gaelic language and culture. Its first president was Douglas Hyde. The objective of the League was to encourage the use of Irish in everyday...
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    Mairead Maguire and William Cecil Campbell; former Presidents of Ireland Douglas Hyde, Éamon de Valera, Mary Robinson, and Mary McAleese; philosophers George...
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    estate's manor house, Castlehyde House, had been the ancestral home of Douglas Hyde's family and is one of several houses owned by Irish dancer, Michael Flatley...
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  • Gaedhilge), the first important bilingual Irish periodical with the help of Douglas Hyde, with David Comyn as editor. The early literary revival had two geographic...
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  • in Ireland and worldwide. The organisation was founded in 1893 with Douglas Hyde as its first president, when it emerged as the successor of several 19th...
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    (short film) and "The Playboy Interviews" (art installation film for the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin). Fair City (1988), Dr John McEwan - TV Series Before...
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    nominate Douglas Hyde for the office. The following day, Labour Party leader William Norton expressed his approval in the Dáil of the nomination of Hyde, and...
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  • the initial nomination of the uncontested, first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, a Fine Gael candidate has never won an election to the office of president...
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  • United States. 1940 – Thomas Quinn, granted by Douglas Hyde 1943 – Walter Brady, granted by Douglas Hyde 1992 – Nicky Kelly, granted by Mary Robinson 1999...
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  • – 31 December 1938) was the wife of the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde. Kurtz was born on 11 April 1861, in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia, and...
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  • the Constitution on 29 December 1937 until the coming into office of Douglas Hyde in 1938, and during the vacancies of 1974, 1976, and 1997. Great Seal...
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  • Nominated by 1st Pref. Winner Votes % 1938 Douglas Hyde 78 Oireachtas: Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael n/a n/a Douglas Hyde 1945 Patrick McCartan 67 Oireachtas: Labour...
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    Because of the historical importance of Tara, Irish nationalists like Douglas Hyde and W. B. Yeats voiced their protests in newspapers and in 1902 Maud...
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  • holes in 1996 and now measures 6,390 meters (6,990 yards). Dr Hyde Park named after Douglas Hyde (First president of Ireland) is a GAA stadium with a capacity...
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    Dublin 1, which was frequented by notable historical figures, including Douglas Hyde, the first President of Ireland, Arthur Griffith, founder of Sinn Féin...
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    A. Costello In office 29 December 1937 – 18 February 1948 President Douglas Hyde Seán T. O'Kelly Tánaiste Seán T. O'Kelly Seán Lemass Preceded by Himself...
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  • na Gaeilge. Douglas Hyde had mentioned the necessity of "de-anglicizing" Ireland, as a cultural goal that was not overtly political. Hyde resigned from...
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    decided in 1938 that the inauguration of the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde, would take place in the castle, and the complex has been host to this...
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