biography
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Hyde, Douglas
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Ir Dubhighlas de Hide
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| lived:
| (1860–1949)
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| biography:
| Writer, philologist, and first president of Ireland (1937–45), born in Frenchpark, Co Roscommon, WC Ireland. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and was the founder and first president (1893–1915) of the Gaelic League. Professor of Irish in the National University (1909–32), he wrote A Literary History of Ireland (1899), as well as poems, plays, works on history and folklore, in Irish and English. |
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