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Douglas Hyde
 
Date of birth: 17 January 1860
Date of death: 12 July 1949
Country Of Origin: Ireland
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Scholar

Biography:
    1860, County Roscommon 1949 professor; Irish language activist: Dubhghlas de hÍde) (17 January 1860 – 12 July 1949) was an Anglo-Irish scholar of the Irish language who served as the first President of Ireland from 1938 to 1945. He founded the Gaelic League, one of the most influential cultural organisations in Ireland.
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" As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power. "

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" Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. "

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" For the first time in Ireland within my recollection, Catholic and Protestant, Unionist and Nationalist, landlord and tenant, priest and parson, all work hand in hand in the interest of Ireland's life and intellectuality. "

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" I - and there are hundreds of thousands of Irishmen who felt on this subject as I do - have always liked my Celtic countrymen and disliked the English nation; it is a national trait of character, and I cannot help it. "

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" I believe for example that the character of the people has deteriorated in the east of the County Leitrim and in the County Lonford, where Irish died out a generation ago. "

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" I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried. "

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" In order to de-Anglicize ourselves, we must at once arrest the decay of the language. We must teach ourselves not to be ashamed of ourselves. "

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" It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish. "

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" Now if we allow our living language to die out, it is almost a certainty that we condemn our literary records to remain in obscurity. "

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" Reverence for our past history, regard for the memory of our ancestors, our national honour, and the fear of becoming materialized and losing our best and highest characteristics call upon us imperatively to assist the Irish-speaking population. "

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" The literary activity of even the eighteenth century among the Gaels was very great. "

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" We are above and beyond all politics, all parties and all factions; offending nobody - except the anti-Irishman. "

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" We are told that the keeping alive a language spoken by so small a number of the community is a barrier to progress. "

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" We must put pressure upon our politicians not to snuff out by their tacit discouragement merely because they do not happen to understand it. "

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" What I advocate brings with it no substantial or material advantage at all. It will neither make money nor help to make money. "

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